Hey Carsten, On 1/27/19 1:46 PM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > Am 27.01.19 um 19:14 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh: >> Carsten, >> >> The metadata (which I assumed to be defined as libraries, templates, and >> samples but maybe my thinking is incorrect here) license is >> CC-BY-SA-4.0. What "required parts" are missing that would resolve the >> Debian copyright information? > > well, Lintian is "just" a QS tool that tries to be smart. :) > > In general Lintian is looking at the whole files, and this is the source > and also in the created packages. > > As the libraries are not included in the src:kicad package it can't find > any references to CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed files in the copyright file and > thus is prints out a warning. "Heh, I've found a mention of some general > CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed files but I haven't found any it in the copyright > file!" Lintian doesn't know here of any other source packages that might > depend on KiCad. > > I can override this warning with a small explaining and pointing what > this line in appdata.xml is intended for. I suggest you or someone else > simply write some lines that KiCad is relaying on other parts (like > libraries) which are licensed as CC-BY-SA-4.0 which I can point to. > > I personally would drop that line in appdata.xml and just add this > information and relationship of KiCad to other parts in LICENSE.README. > > The demos have no extra license statement so they are covered by the > licenses for KiCad. All other parts like libraries, documentation, l10n > are organized in dedicated trees with also own license information. >
I suppose I could remove the CC-BY-SA-4.0 metadata license but I'm not sure it makes sense to put the demos under the gpl3+ license. Maybe we should add the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license to the demo folder or the main folder with a note that the demos fall under the this license. JP, you created most (all?) of the demos. Do you have any opinion on this? Cheers, Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
