On 7/24/07, Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your debian/copyright file is still not complete. > First you have to mention which files are under a different > License/Copyright. To do this, and to make sure there's no > undistributeable stuff in there, you have to take a look at every file. > No fun, I know :( > > For example: > plasTeX/Base/LaTeX/allkeys.txt is from unicode.org, and at least I can't > figure out the license properly, as the given link redirects to a page > with several licenses. Upstream needs to fix that. Also - as far as I > know - you need to have the written license included in the source, at > least in some countries, as links to the www are worth nothing at court. > > plasTeX/Base/LaTeX/ent.xml - "Reuse approved as long as this > notification is kept." - not sure if ftp-masters accept that as proper > license. Another thing upstream should take care of, for the safety of > their own ass. > > plasTeX/Base/LaTeX/pyuca.py - different author, no license. Another > thing for upstream. > > plasTeX/Renderers/S5/Themes/default/ui/default/slides.js is in public > domain, and other s5 stuff probably, too - you need to mention that in > debian/copyright. > > plasTeX/Renderers/S5/Themes/default/ui/i18n/pretty.css - "Theme placed > under CC by-sa 2.0 license" - that's a non-free license unfortunately. > Needs to be removed/replaced if you want to have it in main. > You could probably replace the theme, although I didn;t have a look, I > guess there're a lot of S5 themes out there - S5 rocks :) > > > plasTeX/Renderers/XHTML/Themes/default/icons/lightbox.js more CC 2.5 > stuff - non-free. Although CC 2.5 is more recent than 2.0, it's still > not free: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/08/msg00008.html > As more and more people are using lightbox it would probably be a good > idea to contact the lightbox author, tell him about the problems with > the CC license and DFSG (there's a nice - hopefully correct - entry > about the DFSG in wikipedia), ad ask him to co-license it under a free > license (see http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses) and CC. I know that > there're several packages in Debian, which were stripped form lightbox > because of that. > > > Please check all files again, I'm not sure if I found all problems. Hope > you get them fixed, probably together with upstream, it would be really > good to see a free latex2html replacement in Debian.
Gosh, I didn't know there was so many problems, I have forwarded your mail to upstream, and awaits his response. Will do a more thorough look also. /Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
