On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:58:51PM +0200, kabi wrote: > On 8/25/05, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: avifile > > Version: 1:0.7.43.20050224-1 > > Priority: serious > > I really don't see any reason for this priority anyway
What are you talking about? This is a serious policy violation. > > - ffmpeg is: Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard et al. > > - ffmpeg/libavcodec/ppc/dsputil_altivec.c says > > This is clearly nonsence - the whole ffmpeg project > has LGPL licence except for the the postprocess library > which is GPL. License != copyright. In your debian/copyright file you have to state the copyright statements of all files in the sources _and_ the license they use. If all the files use the same license, fine, just say it once, but you have to reproduce the copyright statements! Please re-read the policy, you are obligued to do so and not doing it is both a de-merit to the original authors (which do not get credited in /usr/share/doc/$package/copyright) and a policy violation. > So unless you will find a better reason for pushing me to such sensless > work I'm not going to fix it this way. You are going to. License != copyright. If you disagree, bring this to either debian-devel, debian-legal or the Technical comitte. If you close this bug stating that you've done the job I will reopen it again. You have been warned. If you want to take a loot at a proper debian/copyright files that acknowledges _all_ the copyrights of its sources check out /usr/share/doc/xserver-common/copyright or /usr/share/doc/dpkg/copyright. Notice, in those files, how there is a first section describing the copyright of the source code and a second part describing the license. Your copyright file does _not_ mention the copyright and confuses copyright and license. > Is there some new Debian memorandu which states that > copyrign file should contain which line of code was written by whom ? > As this is clearly what you wish from me to do - but hey I'm a programmer > which develops avifile - I'm not a secretary for this kind of work - so > if you propose to activily create and maintant such file - I'd happily > accept your updates for such file. I'm not going to update this. It's your task as Debian maintainer, please go read the policy and get a clue, if you don't, then the package will not be distributed as is in Debian. If you want examples, then look at copyright files of other packages who got the idea right. Regards Javier
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