clone 826216 -1 retitle -1 w3c-sgml-lib: XHTML 1.1 files missing severity -1 normal retitle 826216 w3c-sgml-lib: inconsistencies in copyright file thanks
Hi Nicholas, only now (wondering what “From other branch bugs” means) I found out that w3c-sgml-lib badly (different paths, no transition package) re‐ places w3c-dtd-xhtml in sid. There are several problems with *that*, as well. First off, w3c-sgml-lib_1.3-1_all.deb/deb://CONTENTS/usr/share/xml/w3c-sgml-lib/schema/dtd/REC-xhtml11-20101123/xhtml11.dtd is modular, not flattened, i.e. contains references to other files, such as xhtml-struct.mod (at the EOF), but these files are not part of the package. This makes w3c-sgml-lib unusable for XHTML 1.1. Let’s discuss that separately. Second, this still applies: >document any more. I’ve done some web.archive.org digging, and the last >version in which it was included is: > >http://web.archive.org/web/20090817142721/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD […] >So this information no longer applies. However, either statement is a […] >The problem with these grants, all of them, is that any document >published past their date (i.e. between 20090817 and 20100217, the >exact cutoff point being unclear) is *NOT* covered by them. The w3c-sgml-lib package’s Debian copyright file also has a mismatch between grant and licence to use and uses the newer W3C licence, which lacks permission to “use” the work and OSI approval (though, of course, the latter is not a problem for Debian, I don’t intend to legally ana‐ lyse whether the former is). >I’ve included a replacement debian/copyright file I’d use. You might wish to take this as template, but only for all files in the w3c-sgml-lib file that predate the relevant cutoff dates (which are, roughly, 2001-06-02 for the generic “you can also use the W3C® software licence” grant and 2002-12-30 for the more specific “if there’s no explicit licence, you can use the W3C® software licence for it” grant that saved our arses for XHTML 1.0 Second Edition). Cutoff date for the grant with the newer W3C licence is 2009-08-17, which however contains the generic “you can also” grant. Anything newer than that will require to have explicit licencing terms attached to the individual files (or their distribution, but that’s more involved to check). bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg
