Bug#738537: Packages's debian/copyright file incomplete, package contains non-DFSG files

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Emilio,

On  Mo 10 Feb 2014 13:57:42 CET, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:

On 10/02/14 12:26, Mike Gabriel wrote:

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.8.2-2
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer,



(1) the debian/copyright file is incomplete. Several LGPL-2+ files from the
upstream tarball (libnautilus-extension1a package) are not covered by
debian/copyright.

while packaging Caja from the MATE Desktop project for Debian, I stumbled over a severe issue with the debian/copyright file of nautilus and its upstream tarball.

This needs updating.

Feel free to re-use parts of my current effort on Caja's debian/copyright [1].

(2) the upstream source tarball contains a COPYING-DOCS file (containing a

by the Debian project [1].

version of the GNU FDL-1.1+ license). This file probably relates to the docs/ folder in the upstream tarball (it is not quite clear). These files should not be in Debian as the GNU FDL-1.1+ is not considered as a DFSG compliant license

This file is a leftover for the help/ subdir that was present in nautilus
pre-2.0 (e.g. nautilus 1.1.1). Those were released under the GFDL. Nothing is

it to be considered non-free. There are no mentions of invariant sections so
we're fine. I'll ask upstream to remove that file from the repo.

licensed under the GFDL anymore so this is fine. In any case, even if something was released under the GFDL, it would have to specify any Invariant Section for

That is good news! Thanks for clearing this up!

Mike

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mate/caja.git;a=blob;f=debian/copyright

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