On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:47:34PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > Package: debian-reference-common > Version: 1.08-3 > Severity: minor
Hi, I am back on net now :-) > Debian-reference copyright notice reads: > > This document may used under the terms the GNU General Public License > version 2 or higher. > > Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of > this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice > are preserved on all copies. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of > this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that > the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of > a permission notice identical to this one. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this > document into another language, under the above conditions for > modified versions, except that this permission notice may be included > in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of > in the original English. > > [See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 for text of GPL v2] > > > The work is thus released under the GNU GPL (v2 or later), Yes absolutely. > but some phrases > taken from a different license seem to have leaked into the copyright > notice. Please tell me which part is the "leak". > These statements have nothing to do with the GPL and it's > not clear if they are intended as additional permissions (some of > them, at least, would be unnecessary in that case) or as something > else. If you see GFDL reference in the source sgml, it is clearly meant to be dual license. The thought was I wanted it to be compatible if the world moved to GFDL. That did not happen and it makes these words stay in the souce SGML only :-) Besides, Chapter 2 and other contents I borrowed was GPL2. So the whole documents can only be distributed as GPL2. The only parts I wrote can be GFDL if someone care to make it so. > The canonical copyright notice for a work released under the GNU GPL v2 > or later is something along the lines of > > > Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > GNU General Public License for more details. > > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software > Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA > 02110-1301, USA > > > Could you please clarify the copyright notice? > Thank you very much! Anyway, I wrote this text and assessed this package to be GPL2 as a whole. If this is sufficient explanmation, please close this bug. Regards, Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
