OK, I looked at the package on mentors.debian.net. The legal issues are far from fixed.
The debian/copyright file needs a copyright statement from every copyright holder, and a license from them. This means (for example) including the Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation copyright from fonts/letters.ttf and fonts/menu.ttf. It looks like the upstream author has vouched for the origin of the images. However, you have to track down every single sound and find its origin, to find out whether it's in the public domain or 'non-commercial only'. You then need to record that in the debian/copyright file. Similarly, you have to go through every single font. I know that at least the Armenian font is copyright (c) 1992 Hrant H. Papazian, with no apparent license, and so undistributable. If you removed any non-free material from the upstream tarball, you should rename it (tuxtype-1.5.3dfsg is a traditional choice). Actually, in general the copyright file is all wrong. It should look vaguely like this after the "Copyright:" header (the list of copyright holders is the union of those listed in the various files I looked at): Copyright: Debian changes copyright 2005 Fabio Brito Tux Typing is copyright: Jesse Andrews 2001, 2003 and other years Calvin Arndt Sam Hart 2000, 2001 and other years Jacob Greig Bill Kendrick 2002 Olivier Dagenais and David Marshman Portions copyright Free Software Foundation 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 FreeSans font copyright Free Software Foundation 2002 Some portions (of images) copyright Larry Ewing Tux Typing, including the fonts, images, and sounds, and all Debian changes are 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. The following images, contained in Tux Typing, are works of the United States Government and are in the public domain: kcas1_1.gif kcas1_2.gif kcas1_3.gif kcas1_4.gif kcas2_1.gif kcas2_2.gif kcas2_3.gif kcas2_4.gif kcas3_1.gif kcas3_2.gif kcas3_3.gif kcas3_4.gif wcas1_1.gif wcas1_2.gif wcas1_3.gif wcas1_4.gif wcas2_1.gif wcas2_2.gif wcas2_3.gif wcas2_4.gif wcas3_1.gif wcas3_2.gif wcas3_3.gif wcas3_4.gif The following sound was recorded by ... and released into the public domain by its author: .... ---- ....etc. Get the idea? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
