[cc-me please; I am not on list] Hi debian-legal list and Debian D-Bus maintainers,
Recently I encountered a package that has unclear license status and I would like some help from you. Please take a look at "peek" software[1]. Its packaging repo can be found at [2]. Files in doubt are in [3]. Some quick facts: * Vala source code files are generated from D-Bus interface spec files (XML format) using "vala-dbus-binding-tool" (exist in Debian Archive) * Some of XML spec files are generated using "dbus-send" tool (exist in Debian Archive) * Other XML files are copied from Freedesktop.org website [4] and gnome-shell source code Now, here is the problem: contents in fd.o website has no licensing information. I asked (daniels) at irc #freedesktop and the person said that the status quo is "undefined" and it is not likely to change in near future. However, I'm not sure about the license of D-Bus interface itself as well as the XML file that describes such interface. Anyway, it is an interface, not any concrete implementation. In fact, I can regenerate the XML spec file included in [4] using "dbus-send" tool too with a Debian system where dbus (daemon) is running. With a GPL-3+ project like [1], what is the best practice to satisfy Debian's requirement about packaging and license? [1] https://github.com/phw/peek [2] http://salsa.debian.org/hosiet-guest/peek [3] https://github.com/phw/peek/tree/master/src/dbus [4] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface/ P.S. I'm asking this question looking for an answer to make sure that this package won't get rejected during the NEW process by ftp-masters due to licensing problems. -- Sincerely, Boyuan Yang _______________________________________________ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list Pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers