On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:59:26PM +0200, Francesco Cecconi wrote: > On Monday 23 July 2012 09:58:58 Bart Martens wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile > > > > | Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright > > | information and distribution license in the file > > | /usr/share/doc/package/copyright.
I understand "verbatim" as "using the same words". > > > > The copyright information and distribution license I find in > > test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/Linking-rule.html is : > > > > | Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Alain Lahellec > > | > > | Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Patrice Dumas > > | > > | Copyright (C) 2004, Ste'phane Hallegatte These copyright notices are the "copyright information" meant in debian-policy. > > | > > | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document > > | under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or > > | any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no > > | Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover text and with no Back-Cover > > Text. > > | A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free > > | Documentation License." This text plus the text in test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html are the "distribution license" meant in debian-policy. > > > > The related information I find in your debian/copyright file is : > > > > | Upstream Authors: > > | test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/*.html, > > test/manuals/res_info/mini_ker/*.html > > | test/manuals/res/mini_ker/*.html: > > | Alain Lahellec, Patrice Dumas, Ste'phane Hallegatte The terms "author" and "copyright holder" are different terms with different meanings. > > | Copyright: > > | test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/*.html, > > test/manuals/res_info/mini_ker/*.html > > | test/manuals/res/mini_ker/*.html are licensed under the GPL-1+, wich > > in debian > > | system can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1. The terms "copyright" and "license" are different terms with different meanings as well. > > I have updated the license to GFDL, but since the version 1.1 is not in > debian > common-licenses directory If the license text is not in /usr/share/common-licenses/ then you must include it in debian/copyright. > I'm using for copyright information: > > test/manuals/res_all/mini_ker/*.html, test/manuals/res_info/mini_ker/*.html > test/manuals/res/mini_ker/*.html are licensed under the GFDL-1.1+, we do > not have a copy of the GFDL 1.1, but you can find a copy of the GFDL 1.3 > in /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL Things like "no Front-Cover text" are essential for this license. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
