Bug#966826: RFS: libmobi/0.6-1 [ITP] -- Tools for handling Mobipocket/Kindle ebook format documents
On 29 Oct 2021, at 17:16, Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 22:36:51 +0200 Bartek Fabiszewski wrote:
>> It builds those binary packages:
>> libmobi0-tools - Tools for handling Mobipocket/Kindle ebook format documents
>> libmobi0 - C library for handling Mobipocket/Kindle ebook format documents
>> libmobi-dev - Development files for libmobi
>> To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:
>> https://mentors.debian.net/package/libmobi/
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> It is discouraged to intermingle debian and upstream changes. Also, it is discouraged to have the complete upstream git history in the salsa repo (see your debian branch). I have created a master and an upstream branch that you can use with git-buildpackage going forward. You can drop the debian branch.
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> Please use the same email address in d/changelog and in d/control (Maintainer) else you get those lintian warnings about an NMU happening.
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> Please read the thread in https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2017/08/msg00000.html and find out if you were right about Project Gutenberg license (I have not yet read it). Maybe there are other Debian threads about it.
Regarding the license.
According to the thread you mention, the Gutenberg Project license fails the DFSG, so my assumption was wrong.
At the same time, according to the license there are no restrictions to distributing the ebooks if the Project Gutenberg license and all references to Project Gutenberg are removed from distributed material. This is confirmed by the thread in legal list.
There are three ebook samples in source tarball that were downloaded from Project Gutenberg website. One of the samples was later modified, so that there are no references to Project Gutenberg. The other ones have reference to the Project inside the ebook.
To comply with DFSG I will remove the Project Gutenberg license from d/copyright, so that the Project Gutenberg trademark is not used anywhere.
I will also remove two of the samples. The ones that still have references to the Project in ebook text.
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