Package: w3c-dtd-xhtml Version: 1.2-4 Severity: serious Justification: Policy §12.5
1. The file /usr/share/doc/w3c-dtd-xhtml/copyright is not encoded as UTF-8, which is a MUST in Policy. 2. very long; for a 'tl;dr' see below (grep for 'CONCLUSION') The following sentence can be found in the file… | According to http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html, | "while schemas and DTDs are frequently part of our specifications and | seemingly fall under the document copyright terms, you may use them under | the W3C Software License." … but this is not true, this information is not contained within that 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 | Check the actual schema or DTDs for a specific license. | | Otherwise, while schemas and DTDs are frequently part of our specifications and seemingly fall | under the [73]document copyright terms, you may use them under the [74]W3C Software License. The | software license requires that you include/retain the copyright attribution and that you indicate | any modification that you make. In the case of DTDs and schema, you must indicate your change by | changing the namespace and/or public identifier so to distinguish your altered version from the W3C | version. We further appreciate a couple sentences regarding who made the modifications, when, and | what changes were made — a common software documentation practice. | | We expect to revisit this topic as meta-data schemas become an increasingly important part of W3C | specifications and as the meta-data schema definition capabilities of XML and RDF advance. | | [added 19990323; tweaked 20030102] So this information no longer applies. However, either statement is a licence grant that’s not revoked, so I guess this still works. There is an older grant at http://web.archive.org/web/20021125050943/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD which does not allow general default to the software licence however. Actually, the oldest grant still found is: http://web.archive.org/web/20000815195302/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD | Schemas (and DTDs) are frequently part of our specifications and seemingly fall under the | [58]document copyright terms. However, as long as you do not use the same formal namespace or | public identifier to identify that modified W3C schema/DTD (which might confuse applications), you | may treat the schema/DTD under the [59]software terms. This means that you are permitted to make a | derivative or modified W3C schema/DTD, but even under the [60]software terms you are obligated to | include/retain the W3C copyright notice. We further appreciate a couple sentences regarding who | made the modifications, when, and what changes were made in the original DTD -- a common software | documentation practice. | | We expect to revisit this topic as metadata schemas become and increasingly important part of W3C | specifications and as the metadata schema definition capabilities of XML and RDF advance. | | [added 19990323] 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. In the case of all files included in this package, they probably are older than the cutoff date. The extra grant is useful for files like xhtml1-frameset.dtd which lacks an explicit licence grant, and the entities files, whose grant is restricted, although XHTML 1.1 thankfully has a separate, much easier grant. The relevant licence to use, by the way, is this (I checked it, and it’s identical to the subsequent archive snapshot): http://web.archive.org/web/20090815033126/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 The “short notice” should also be added to the Debian copyright file as it’s part of the licence. It is (again, same as next snapshot): http://web.archive.org/web/20090814014731/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-short-notice-20021231.html It says: | This formulation of W3C's notice and license became active on December 31 2002. This version | removes the copyright ownership notice such that this license can be used with materials other than | those owned by the W3C, reflects that ERCIM is now a host of the W3C, includes references to this | specific dated version of the license, and removes the ambiguous grant of "use". Otherwise, this | version is the same as the [15]previous version and is written so as to preserve the With “previous version” being a link to the one included in the Debian copyright file. I’m a bit wondering about the “ambiguous grant of "use"” part though. Interestingly enough, the OSI still lists the previous version, despite http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general/834 requesting an update. The newest file I could find in the package is dated 2002-08-01 though, which uses the defaultless grant. This affects the three XHTML 1.0 DTDs; an older version of those DTDs which is covered by the better grant may still exist on the ’net; they could be used if not too buggy. Anything else is old enough (XHTML 1.1 was last updated 2001-05-29) for http://web.archive.org/web/20010602194347/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD to apply, which has the more broad grant and, just as important, the http://web.archive.org/web/20010604080411/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720 licence with “use” still permitted, and no separate document needed to structure the “short notice”; it’s still GPL-compatible. As for XHTML 1.0 Second Edition, the three files in question (see below) do not have an explicit licence mentioned, so the grant from http://web.archive.org/web/20020806141443/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD with “if no specific license exists” applies to them, with its licence http://web.archive.org/web/20021010093258/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720 being the same as above. ================================================================== My recommendation would be to go with http://web.archive.org/web/20010602194347/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD as licence grant and http://web.archive.org/web/20010604080411/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720 as licence, to include the both of them (in UTF-8!) in the Debian copyright file, and to find replacements not older than 2001-06-02 for the following files: • /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/xhtml1-strict.dtd (2002-07-31) • /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/xhtml1-frameset.dtd (2002-08-01) • /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/xhtml1-transitional.dtd (2002-08-01) Unfortunately, there is a Second Edition of XHTML 1.0 which was “revised 1 August 2002”, which users will probably want. CONCLUSION: So, my recommendation is the following: Include the text from the following link (as UTF-8!) as licence: http://web.archive.org/web/20021010093258/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720 Include the licence grant from the following link… http://web.archive.org/web/20020806141443/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD … and make it extremely clear that this only applies to the files /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/xhtml1-*.dtd, and include… http://web.archive.org/web/20010602194347/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD … as grant for all other files; both as textual excerpt. I’ve included a replacement debian/copyright file I’d use. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unreleased APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: x32 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages w3c-dtd-xhtml depends on: ii sgml-base 1.27 ii sgml-data 2.0.10 ii xml-core 0.13+nmu2 w3c-dtd-xhtml recommends no packages. w3c-dtd-xhtml suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
This package was debianized by Frederic Schutz <sch...@mathgen.ch> on Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:03:01 +1100. It was downloaded from - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic.tgz - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/xhtml1.tgz - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/xhtml11.tgz Upstream Authors: W3C HTML Working Group <www-h...@w3.org> Licence grant for /usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/xhtml1-*.dtd only: | However, if no specific license exists for such a DTD or schema, as long as | you do not use the same formal namespace or public identifier to identify | that modified W3C schema/DTD (which might confuse applications), you often | may treat the schema/DTD under the software terms. This means that you are | permitted to make a derivative or modified W3C schema/DTD, but even under | the software terms you are obligated to include/retain the W3C copyright | notice. We further appreciate a couple sentences regarding who made the | modifications, when, and what changes were made in the original DTD — a | common software documentation practice. +-| From: http://web.archive.org/web/20020806141443/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD Licence grant for all other files: | Schemas (and DTDs) are frequently part of our specifications and seemingly | fall under the document copyright terms. However, as long as you do not use | the same formal namespace or public identifier to identify that modified W3C | schema/DTD (which might confuse applications), you may treat the schema/DTD | under the software terms. This means that you are permitted to make a | derivative or modified W3C schema/DTD, but even under the software terms you | are obligated to include/retain the W3C copyright notice. We further | appreciate a couple sentences regarding who made the modifications, when, | and what changes were made in the original DTD -- a common software | documentation practice. +-| From: http://web.archive.org/web/20010602194347/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ-20000620.html#DTD Software licence terms: | W3C^® SOFTWARE NOTICE AND LICENSE | | Copyright © 1994-2002 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts | Institute of Technology, Institut National de Recherche en | Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. | http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ | | This W3C work (including software, documents, or other related items) | is being provided by the copyright holders under the following license. | By obtaining, using and/or copying this work, you (the licensee) agree | that you have read, understood, and will comply with the following | terms and conditions: | | Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its | documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose and | without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include the | following on ALL copies of the software and documentation or portions | thereof, including modifications, that you make: | 1. The full text of this NOTICE in a location viewable to users of the | redistributed or derivative work. | 2. Any pre-existing intellectual property disclaimers, notices, or | terms and conditions. If none exist, a short notice of the | following form (hypertext is preferred, text is permitted) should | be used within the body of any redistributed or derivative code: | "Copyright © [$date-of-software] World Wide Web Consortium, | (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de | Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). | All Rights Reserved. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/"; | 3. Notice of any changes or modifications to the W3C files, including | the date changes were made. (We recommend you provide URIs to the | location from which the code is derived.) | | THIS SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS," AND COPYRIGHT | HOLDERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, | INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS | FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE OR | DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, | TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. | | COPYRIGHT HOLDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL | OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY USE OF THE SOFTWARE OR | DOCUMENTATION. | | The name and trademarks of copyright holders may NOT be used in | advertising or publicity pertaining to the software without specific, | written prior permission. Title to copyright in this software and any | associated documentation will at all times remain with copyright | holders. From: http://web.archive.org/web/20021010093258/http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720
