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Bug#608284: RFS: xhtmlrenderer (new package, needed to package Grails)



Hi Miguel,

In lieu of a new upstream release, an email from the upstream clarifying
the license for those files could be added to debian/copyright would
probably be sufficient.  Another option would be to drop the files under
./test/ in a DFSG version of the tarball.  Andrew Ross did this recently
for another package I sponsored.

Cheers,
tony

On 01/12/2011 08:50 PM, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:53 PM, tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi Miguel,
> 
> Hi Tony,
> Thanks for taking a look at my package so quickly.
> 
>> The packaging looks good.  However, unfortunately there are a number of
>> source files that carry neither a copyright nor an author.  For example:
>>
>> ./src/java/org/xhtmlrenderer/tool/Boxer.java
>> ./src/java/org/xhtmlrenderer/simple/PDFRenderer.java
> 
> What worried me about this package were not the .java files without
> copyright notice but all those .dtd, .xml and .mod files but fortunately
> they are licensed under a free enough license.
> 
> What I could understand from the documentation was all source code
> is licensed under LGPL-2.1 except some files bundled from
> another projects (e.g. .css test files). Their LICENSE file states:
> 
> "All source code to Flying Saucer itself is licensed under the
> GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL); you can redistribute
> it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version
> 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."
> 
>> It might be worth clarifying with upstream before uploading to the archive.
> 
> I guess I can contact Joshua and ask about this.
> Though they don't release frequently, it seems to be some activity on
> upstream mailing lists.
> 
> Cheers,
> 


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