Le 8 sept. 2014 16:10, "Yaroslav Halchenko" <deb...@onerussian.com> a écrit
:
>
> the header of that file has
>
> This manual describes how to install and use Numdiff,
> a program which compares
> putatively similar files line by line and field by field,
> ignoring small numeric differences or/and different numeric formats.

Clearly you should repack. Ask #debian-qa particualry paultag or pabs

Bastien
> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010  Ivano Primi
<ivprimi(at)libero(dot)it>
>
>      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
>      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
>      Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
>      Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
>      being "Numdiff User Manual, version 5.2", and with no Back-Cover
>      Texts. A copy of the license is included in *note GNU Free
>      Documentation License::.
>
> so imho cmtk is fine (not to mention that numdiff sources are included
just to
> preserve original tarball, system-wide numdiff installation is used)
>
> so "with no Invariant Sections" and "with no Back-Cover".  I guess this
report
> was triggered by a quote of original GFDL license included in those files
which
> does list invariant clauses... ?
>
> On Sat, 06 Sep 2014, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>
> > Package: src:cmtk
> > Version: 3.2.1-1
> > user: lintian-ma...@debian.org
> > usertags: gfdl-invariant
> > severity: serious
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Your package include some files (see below) licenced under GFDL with
> > invariant or front-cover or back-cover texts.
>
> > Utilities/numdiff-5.2.1/docs/numdiff.html invariant part is: with no
> > invariant sections, with the front-cover texts being numdiff user
> > manual, version 5.2 and with no back-cover texts
> > Utilities/numdiff-5.2.1/docs/numdiff.info invariant part is: with no
> > invariant sections, with the front-cover texts being numdiff user
> > manual, version 5.2 and with no back-cover texts
> > Utilities/numdiff-5.2.1/docs/numdiff.txi invariant part is: with no
> > invariant sections, with the front-cover texts being numdiff user
> > manual, version 5.2 and with no back-cover texts
> > Utilities/numdiff-5.2.1/docs/numdiff.txt invariant part is: with no
> > invariant sections, with the front-cover texts being numdiff user
> > manual, version 5.2 and with no back-cover texts
>
>
>
> > Per General Resolution [1] GFDL with invariant or front-cover or
> > back-cover text is considered non-free.
>
> > You could solve this problem by (see also [2]):
> > - contact upstream to relicense.
> > - rip the file and add it to non free (like gcc-doc).
>
> > You could also ask debian-qa for more guidance.
>
> > Thanks
>
>
> > [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001
> > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/gfdlinvariant
>
>
> --
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