pd-iemlib: request for review/sponsoring

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting IOhannes m zmoelnig (2013-12-12 17:46:40)
> On 2013-12-05 16:08, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> > On 2013-12-05 15:36, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> >> My interpretation of the DFSG is that in this case the source for 
> >> Dokumentation_German.pdf is missing, because a pdf is not the 
> >> preferred form of modification (or is it?). That would mean we need 
> >> to strip it from the source tarball.
> > 
> > hmm, well.
> > 
> > so if the original "source" (that is: the M$-word document) is lost
> 
> 
> so i contacted upstream, and after a lot of digging on dusty harddisks 
> the original .doc file has re-appeared.
> 
> so does this mean that they have to do another release that includes 
> the .doc file in the source-package?

Yes: We need actual source, not just assurance that source exist.


> do we then have to actually *build* the pdf from the doc?
> (or would a note suffice, that claims that the doc is the source of 
> the pdf?)

If we want to ship the PDF with binary packages, then indeed it needs to 
be built from the source (else we cannot be sure the binary that we ship 
is not somehow different - e.g. contains non-free Adobe font code).


> i'm starting to think that it would be simplest to just exclude the 
> pdf (after all it's German only and documents the library's state >10 
> years ago; this is not to say that it is not still valid or useful)

Sounds like this this odd chase is almost complete.  I suggest to try to 
complete it - also to show respect for those bothered on the way getting 
this far :-)


 - Jonas

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