Hi, On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:08:33AM -0000, Kenneth Wimer wrote: >On Saturday 07 November 2009 01:45:12 am Iain Lane wrote: > [...] >> + You mention copyright of Alan Baghumian at the end of the file, with a >> "see above" note. However, I see no GPL header there. This part also talks >> about the "GPL" --- please mention which version of the GPL. > >Erm, have no idea what you mean...please explain yourself more clearly so >that I can understand what you want/need/mean. > >Sorry for any language problems. I'll try to take care of your needs, if I can >understand them.
No problem, I'll try to be more clear :) Your copyright file says this: The Debian packaging is (C) 2007, Alan Baghumian <[email protected]> and is licensed under the GPL, see above. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. "see above" here usually means that the standard GPL header has already been included in the copyright file, but as the rest of this package is CC licensed, it's not there. You should include it here. It looks something like: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. This program 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 General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. My second point was about the *versioning* of the GPL in this case. The are multiple versions of the GPL in existence and to avoid ambiguity, it would be preferable if you could say which version the package is licensed under. The place where the original packaging is from should tell you this. Then you can replace that sentnse like so: On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. Hope this clears things up. Regards, Iain -- extra desktop backgrounds needs sponsoring in universe https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
