Bug#348494: gnome2-user-guide: [NONFREE-DOC:GFDL] Licenced under the GFDL (debian/copyright claims GPL???)

Mohammed Adnène Trojette adn+deb at diwi.org
Sun May 28 05:43:00 UTC 2006


tag 348494 patch
thanks dude

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006, Paul Wise wrote:
> The current release of the GFDL is non-free, and the content of this
> package is almost entirely licenced under the GFDL (except
> automake/autoconf stuff). I count 5 copies of the GFDL: COPYING,
> COPYING-DOCS and 3 legal.xml files.

Hi,

Here is an extract from <http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.8/>.

   |    Legal Notice
   |  
   |  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
   |  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version
   |  1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with
   |  no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
   |  You can find a copy of the GFDL at this link or in the file COPYING-DOCS
   |  distributed with this manual.

So I suggest the following corrections in the debian/copyright file,
based on <http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.8/>:

--- debian/copyright.old        2006-05-28 07:30:06.000000000 +0200
+++ debian/copyright    2006-05-28 07:36:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,15 +1,67 @@
 This package was debianized by Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org> on
 Fri,  4 May 2001 14:56:35 +0200.

-It was downloaded from:
+It was downloaded from:
+<ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.8/2.8.1/sources/>

 Upstream Authors: Dan Mueth <dan at eazel.com>
+                  Chris Lyttle <chris at wilddev.net>
+                  gdocteam at sun.com <Sun Microsystems>
                  Laszlo Kovacs <laszlo.kovacs at sun.com>
-                 Alexander Kirillov <kirillov at math.sunysb.edu>
+                  Alexander Kirillov <kirillov at math.sunysb.edu>

-Copyright:

-© 1999 by Red Hat Software and David A. Wheeler

-This software is licenced under the GPL2.
-See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the full text.
+Copyright © 1999 Red Hat Software, David A. Wheeler
+Copyright © 2004 Sun Microsystems
+Copyright © 2003 Sun Microsystems
+
+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version
+1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with
+no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
+You can find a copy of the GFDL in the file COPYING-DOCS distributed
+with this manual.
+
+This manual is part of a collection of GNOME manuals distributed under
+the GFDL. If you want to distribute this manual separately from the
+collection, you can do so by adding a copy of the license to the manual,
+as described in section 6 of the license.
+
+Many of the names used by companies to distinguish their products and
+services are claimed as trademarks. Where those names appear in any
+GNOME documentation, and the members of the GNOME Documentation Project
+are made aware of those trademarks, then the names are in capital
+letters or initial capital letters.
+
+DOCUMENT AND MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT ARE PROVIDED UNDER
+THE TERMS OF THE GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE WITH THE FURTHER
+UNDERSTANDING THAT:
+
+   1.
+
+         DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY
+     OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
+     LIMITATION, WARRANTIES THAT THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF
+     THE DOCUMENT IS FREE OF DEFECTS MERCHANTABLE, FIT FOR A PARTICULAR
+     PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGING. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY,
+     ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF
+     THE DOCUMENT IS WITH YOU. SHOULD ANY DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION
+     PROVE DEFECTIVE IN ANY RESPECT, YOU (NOT THE INITIAL WRITER, AUTHOR
+     OR ANY CONTRIBUTOR) ASSUME THE COST OF ANY NECESSARY SERVICING,
+     REPAIR OR CORRECTION. THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY CONSTITUTES AN
+     ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS LICENSE. NO USE OF ANY DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED
+     VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT IS AUTHORIZED HEREUNDER EXCEPT UNDER THIS
+     DISCLAIMER; AND 2.
+
+           UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER IN
+TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL THE AUTHOR,
+INITIAL WRITER, ANY CONTRIBUTOR, OR ANY DISTRIBUTOR OF THE DOCUMENT
+OR MODIFIED VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT, OR ANY SUPPLIER OF ANY OF SUCH
+PARTIES, BE LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
+INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT
+LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER
+FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER DAMAGES OR LOSSES ARISING
+OUT OF OR RELATING TO USE OF THE DOCUMENT AND MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THE
+DOCUMENT, EVEN IF SUCH PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY
+OF SUCH DAMAGES.

-- 
adn
Mohammed Adnène Trojette
-------------- next part --------------
--- debian/copyright.old	2006-05-28 07:30:06.000000000 +0200
+++ debian/copyright	2006-05-28 07:42:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,15 +1,67 @@
 This package was debianized by Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org> on
 Fri,  4 May 2001 14:56:35 +0200.
 
-It was downloaded from: 
+It was downloaded from:
+<ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.14/2.14.1/sources/>
 
 Upstream Authors: Dan Mueth <dan at eazel.com>
+                  Chris Lyttle <chris at wilddev.net>
+                  gdocteam at sun.com <Sun Microsystems>
 		  Laszlo Kovacs <laszlo.kovacs at sun.com>
-		  Alexander Kirillov <kirillov at math.sunysb.edu>
+                  Alexander Kirillov <kirillov at math.sunysb.edu>
 
-Copyright:
 
-? 1999 by Red Hat Software and David A. Wheeler
 
-This software is licenced under the GPL2.
-See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the full text.
+Copyright ? 1999 Red Hat Software, David A. Wheeler
+Copyright ? 2004 Sun Microsystems
+Copyright ? 2003 Sun Microsystems
+
+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version
+1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with
+no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
+You can find a copy of the GFDL in the file COPYING-DOCS distributed
+with this manual.
+
+This manual is part of a collection of GNOME manuals distributed under
+the GFDL. If you want to distribute this manual separately from the
+collection, you can do so by adding a copy of the license to the manual,
+as described in section 6 of the license.
+
+Many of the names used by companies to distinguish their products and
+services are claimed as trademarks. Where those names appear in any
+GNOME documentation, and the members of the GNOME Documentation Project
+are made aware of those trademarks, then the names are in capital
+letters or initial capital letters.
+
+DOCUMENT AND MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT ARE PROVIDED UNDER
+THE TERMS OF THE GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE WITH THE FURTHER
+UNDERSTANDING THAT:
+
+   1.
+
+         DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY
+     OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
+     LIMITATION, WARRANTIES THAT THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF
+     THE DOCUMENT IS FREE OF DEFECTS MERCHANTABLE, FIT FOR A PARTICULAR
+     PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGING. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY,
+     ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF
+     THE DOCUMENT IS WITH YOU. SHOULD ANY DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION
+     PROVE DEFECTIVE IN ANY RESPECT, YOU (NOT THE INITIAL WRITER, AUTHOR
+     OR ANY CONTRIBUTOR) ASSUME THE COST OF ANY NECESSARY SERVICING,
+     REPAIR OR CORRECTION. THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY CONSTITUTES AN
+     ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS LICENSE. NO USE OF ANY DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED
+     VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT IS AUTHORIZED HEREUNDER EXCEPT UNDER THIS
+     DISCLAIMER; AND 2.
+
+           UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER IN
+TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL THE AUTHOR,
+INITIAL WRITER, ANY CONTRIBUTOR, OR ANY DISTRIBUTOR OF THE DOCUMENT
+OR MODIFIED VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT, OR ANY SUPPLIER OF ANY OF SUCH
+PARTIES, BE LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
+INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT
+LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER
+FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER DAMAGES OR LOSSES ARISING
+OUT OF OR RELATING TO USE OF THE DOCUMENT AND MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THE
+DOCUMENT, EVEN IF SUCH PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY
+OF SUCH DAMAGES.


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