csound manual

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 04:49:11PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 16:41, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Do we have access to any documents upstream which supports the 
>>>>>>>> claim that all contributions have been made under the GFDL?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't think so. However, if the code is released under a 
>>>>>>> certain license, and I contribute a patch, I think it is 
>>>>>>> implicit that the code is licensed under the same license as the 
>>>>>>> project.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I believe that to be a false assumption.
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe common practice in debian has been to trust upstream 
>>>>> when it comes to licensing. We cannot provide a full auditory of 
>>>>> the code's licensing status, not without investing inordinate 
>>>>> amounts of time and effort, and possibly even money.
>>>>
>>>> I agree.
>>>>
>>>> And I see no conflict between this and what I described above.  I 
>>>> suspect that you do, since you mention it here.  Care to elaborate?
>>>
>>> If upstream tells me the work is GFDL'ed, then I have no reason to 
>>> believe some parts of it are not GFDL, unless explicitly stated. 
>>> What we are doing here is precisely debating whether the manual is 
>>> in fact GFDL.
>>
>> Do upstream state that the complete work is GFDL?  Then let's quote 
>> verbatim that statement.
>
>From PrefaceCopy.html:
>
>This version of the Csound Manual ("The Canonical Csound Manual") is
>released under the GNU Free Documentation Licence.

Good.  Let's include that in debian/copyright.

I suspect, however, that "This version of the Csound Manual" does not 
cover the complete work.  You mentioned yourself in the earlier non-DEP5 
copyright file that some parts were GPL (or was it LGPL?).


   - Jonas

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