Bug#685572: xxdiff doc screenshots licensing

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Florian Schlichting <fsfs@debian.org> wrote:

Hi Martin Blais,

I'm trying to make a new Debian package for xxdiff, after the old one
was removed a few years ago along with the obsolete QT libraries.
Unfortunately, my package was not acceptable because it contained the
HTML documentation in doc/, including the screenshots, with the same
text as on your website:

All images and material are Copyright © 2001 Martin Blais, Montreal,
Canada. All Rights Reserved. Images may not be used without written
permission. If you would like to license or use an image, please
contact blais@furius.ca

Oh wow... is this why it was removed? Why wasn't I contacted?

This is silly.

Where do you find this Copyright notice?

I should change it, never realized it was a problem.

Could you please clarify if that statement stands, even though the
images are distributed as part of the xxdiff tarball, which is licensed
under the GPL? If so, the screenshot docs are undistributeable and will
have to be removed from the Debian package. Otherwise, it would be good
if the copyright statement can be removed from the HTML distributed in
the tarball (and perhaps include the bison3 fix while at it?)

I'm totally fine with the packaging and distribution of anything related to xxdiff.

I made it GNU for that reason!

If anything needs to be changed, let me know where and I will change it.

Thank you for your work on xxdiff, my favorite graphical diff tool!
Florian

Thanks for packaging it Florian.