Bug#771126: libav/tests/lena.pnm: also not mentioned in debian/copyright

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Reinhard,

Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2014-11-27 18:35:05)
> In order to address this, I've proposed to replace lena.pnm with a new 
> image, taken by me, at https://github.com/libav/libav/pull/17

Fun idea :-)


> I don't really care about the licensing. Is the declaration in the 
> commit message OK? How to declare that in debian/copyright?

I might get away with such custom set of licensing terms, but to ease 
processing (if not by lawyers in a later dispute then at least by fellow 
distro maintainers wanting to categorize, identify, verify etc.) it is 
recommended that you instead pick a common license.  Preferrably one of 
those tracked by SPDX as listed at
<https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-specification>.

Seems what you want is as liberal and as briefly expressed license as 
possible.  A popular common license of that kind is "Expat".  ideally 
you refer to that license by its canonical URL 
<http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt> but since you seem to seek as 
brief as possible expression, you could simply state e.g. "Licensed 
under the Expat license."

I am not a lawyer, just interested in licensing and pay attention to 
licensing patterns commonly expressed by upstreams of Debian and 
approved in Debian.  YMMV.


 - Jonas

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