On Monday, January 20, 2025 10:17:33 PM MST Xiyue Deng wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Once again I'm missing your mail and am not able to provide a timely
> reply (sad). Anyway, please see my replies below.
>
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 06:47:08 +0000 Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 +moreinfo
> >
> > Xiyue,
> >
> > Preamble...
> >
> > Thank you for taking the time to prepare this package and your contribution
> > to the Debian project.
> >
> > This review is offered to help package submitters to Debian mentors inorder
> > to improve their packages prior to possible sponsorship into Debian. There
> > is no obligation on behalf of the submitter to make any alterations based
> > upon information provided in the review.
> >
> > Review...
> >
> > 1. Build:
> > * pbuilder [1]: Good
> > * sbuild [2]: Good
> >
> > 2. Lintian [3]: Good
> >
> > 3. Licenses [4]: Issue
> >
> > philwyett@ks-tarkin:~/Development/builder/debian/geiser-0.31.1$ lrc
> > en: Versions: recon 3.3 check 3.3.9-1
> >
> > Parsing Source Tree ....
> > Reading d/copyright ....
> > Running licensecheck ....
> >
> > d/copyright | licensecheck
> >
> > GFDL-1.3 | GFDL-1.3+ doc/geiser.texi
>
> This should be fine, as the package is using GFDL-1.3 with "no Invariant
> Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts."[1], which is
> DFSG compliant (see "Exceptions" on the DFSGLicense Wiki[2]).
1. You should list this license as GFDL-NIV-1.3, with NIV standing for No Invariant Sections. For example, see:
https://salsa.debian.org/soren/privacybrowser/-/blob/master/debian/copyright?ref_type=heads#L17
2. I think the actual question being raised is if this GFDL-NIV-1.3 or GFDL-NIV-1.3+.
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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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