Bug#754863: missing license in debian/copyright
Thorsten Alteholz
alteholz at debian.org
Fri Jul 25 12:12:50 UTC 2014
Control: severity -1 serious
Hi Dmitry,
oh, come on, do you really want to play severity ping pong just to let
your package migrate?
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
>> [...]
>> please add the missing licenses of:
>> doc/creating_themes/*
>> to debian/copyright.
>
> Was this bug report generated automatically?
No, all my bug reports are hand-crafted.
> I think it is false positive.
So I would say you are wrong.
> Indeed, creating_themes/C/index.docbook mentions the LGPL, but the context is:
I totally agree.
> Licensecheck does not find any non-GPL files as well.
You might want to file a bug against it.
My version of creating_themes/C/index.docbook contains:
<legalnotice>
<para>
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
You may obtain a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License from
the Free Software Foundation by visiting their Web site or by writing
to:
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
MA 02110-1301 USA.
</para>
</legalnotice>
This doesn't look like GPL and has no corresponding entry in your
debian/copyright. There might be other files/licenses you forgot to
mention ...
Thorsten
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