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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