Bug#738537: Packages's debian/copyright file incomplete, package contains non-DFSG files

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

# package is dfsg free, see below
severity 738537 important
thanks

On 10/02/14 12:26, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Package: nautilus
> Version: 3.8.2-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> while packaging Caja from the MATE Desktop project for Debian, I stumbled over a
> severe issue with the debian/copyright file of nautilus and its upstream tarball.
> 
> (1) the debian/copyright file is incomplete. Several LGPL-2+ files from the
> upstream tarball (libnautilus-extension1a package) are not covered by
> debian/copyright.

This needs updating.

> (2) the upstream source tarball contains a COPYING-DOCS file (containing a
> version of the GNU FDL-1.1+ license). This file probably relates to the docs/
> folder in the upstream tarball (it is not quite clear). These files should not
> be in Debian as the GNU FDL-1.1+ is not considered as a DFSG compliant license
> by the Debian project [1].

This file is a leftover for the help/ subdir that was present in nautilus
pre-2.0 (e.g. nautilus 1.1.1). Those were released under the GFDL. Nothing is
licensed under the GFDL anymore so this is fine. In any case, even if something
was released under the GFDL, it would have to specify any Invariant Section for
it to be considered non-free. There are no mentions of invariant sections so
we're fine. I'll ask upstream to remove that file from the repo.

Emilio