Thank you for pointing this out to me - I was not aware of the GFDL-NIV short name. I have now changed it to GFDL-NIV-1.1+ (because legal.xml says "Version 1.1 or any later version") and pushed the updated version to the Salsa repository.
Thank you for sponsoring this upload! On 10/30/19 9:48 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Hi Fabian! > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 06:28:26PM +0100, Fabian Wolff wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for an upload of the 'backintime' package. >> [...] > > I would be happy to sponsor this, just please change one thing. > > In debian/copyright, you specify license as “GFDL”. However, the copyright > specification [1] says: > > “Use GFDL-NIV instead if there are no Front-Cover or Back-Cover Texts or > Invariant Sections.” > > So can you please change the license short name to GFDL-NIV-1.3+? > Then your comment would be not needed, however you may include the first > paragraph of qt/docbook/en/legal.xml in the license text (before the > “On Debian systems” part). > > [1]: > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-short-name > > -- > Dmitry Shachnev >
