Re: [SCM] supercollider/master: Further fixes to copyright file (inc added LGPL-2.1+ and MPL-1.1 notice)
On 11-06-12 at 08:45pm, Dan S wrote: > 2011/6/12 Jonas Smedegaard : > > On 11-06-12 at 06:05pm, danstowell-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org wrote: > >> +License: LGPL-2.1+ > >> + This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > >> + modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public > >> + License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either > >> + version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. > >> +. > >> + This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > >> + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > >> + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU > >> + Lesser General Public License for more details. > >> +. > >> + You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public > >> + License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software > >> + Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 > >> USA > >> + . > >> + On Debian systems the full text of the GNU General Public License > >> version 2 > >> + can be found in the `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1' file. > > > > Last sentence refer to wrong license. > > Oops, thanks. > > > Last but one sentence is superfluous. > > Superfluous? I don't see. Oh, sorry. No, you are right: As it is composed above it is not superfluous. What I do myself (and wrongly thought you'd done as well) is to _not_ treat the paragraph referring to upstream canonical license location as part of the licensing info needing verbatim copying - because of the fact that it has been common practice in Debian for some time (to the extend that it triggers a lintian warning) to actively violate the "verbatim" of that part regarding GPL licenses which reference an old postal address for the Free Software Foundation. What I do instead is include in a Comment: subsection a modern reference to the FSF website, disregarding how upstream project referred to it. ...and when doing that, the verbatim copy is superfluous. > Let me check that I understand: all 567 lines of the MPL to go in the > copyright file? Don't take my word for it: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile The central word there is "verbatim". > Packages such as thunderbird and firefox put it in MPL.gz, which we > could put in the debian/ dir but I don't think the policy allows it to > go in a different file...? If you mean that upstream projects ship their licensing that way then that is irrelevant: The issue is Debian Policy, not some universal law. If you mean Debian packages (of _renaming_ of said projects: icedove and iceweasel), and that they ship licensing text separately _instead_ of verbatim inside the debian/copyright file itself, then I agree with your suggestion that it is not allowed by DEbian Policy, and I suggest filing bugreports about that, with a high severity. Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Re: [SCM] supercollider/master: Further fixes to copyright file (inc added LGPL-2.1+ and MPL-1.1 notice)
2011/6/12 Jonas Smedegaard : > On 11-06-12 at 06:05pm, danstowell-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org wrote: >> +License: LGPL-2.1+ >> + This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or >> + modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public >> + License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either >> + version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. >> +. >> + This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, >> + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of >> + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU >> + Lesser General Public License for more details. >> +. >> + You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public >> + License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software >> + Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 >> USA >> + . >> + On Debian systems the full text of the GNU General Public License version 2 >> + can be found in the `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1' file. > > Last sentence refer to wrong license. Oops, thanks. > Last but one sentence is superfluous. Superfluous? I don't see. >> +License: MPL-1.1 >> + The contents of this package are subject to the Mozilla Public License >> Version >> + 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with >> + the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at >> + http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ >> + . >> + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, >> + WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License >> + for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the >> + License. >> + . >> + On Debian systems,the complete text of the Mozilla >> + Public License Version 1.1 is part of xulrunner package and can be found in >> + "/usr/share/doc/xulrunner/MPL.gz". > > Such reference is not allowed (unless depending on said other package). > Full licensing needs to be included! Let me check that I understand: all 567 lines of the MPL to go in the copyright file? Packages such as thunderbird and firefox put it in MPL.gz, which we could put in the debian/ dir but I don't think the policy allows it to go in a different file...? Dan > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > > ___ > pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list > pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers > ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Re: [SCM] supercollider/master: Further fixes to copyright file (inc added LGPL-2.1+ and MPL-1.1 notice)
On 11-06-12 at 06:05pm, danstowell-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org wrote: > +License: LGPL-2.1+ > +This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > +modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public > +License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either > +version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. > +. > +This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU > +Lesser General Public License for more details. > +. > +You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public > +License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software > +Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA > + . > + On Debian systems the full text of the GNU General Public License version 2 > + can be found in the `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1' file. Last sentence refer to wrong license. Last but one sentence is superfluous. > +License: MPL-1.1 > + The contents of this package are subject to the Mozilla Public License > Version > + 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with > + the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at > + http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ > + . > + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, > + WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License > + for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the > + License. > + . > + On Debian systems,the complete text of the Mozilla > + Public License Version 1.1 is part of xulrunner package and can be found in > + "/usr/share/doc/xulrunner/MPL.gz". Such reference is not allowed (unless depending on said other package). Full licensing needs to be included! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
