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

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Emilio,

On  Mo 10 Feb 2014 13:57:42 CET, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:

> 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.

Feel free to re-use parts of my current effort on Caja's debian/copyright [1].

>> (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.

That is good news! Thanks for clearing this up!

Mike

[1]  
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mate/caja.git;a=blob;f=debian/copyright

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