shutter_0.99.2-1_multi.changes REJECTED

Andrej Shadura andrewsh at debian.org
Sun Jan 16 18:07:12 GMT 2022


Hi,

On Sun, 16 Jan 2022, at 19:00, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>   The README file states the following:
>   =====================================
>  
>   8< ~~~~~~~~
>  
>   Tango Icons 
>   ------------                                                          
>   In the preparation of the 0.8.90 release Novell took care of tracking 
>   down all the contributors to get them to relicense their artwork 
>   into Public Domain.                                                   

>   The COPYING file of the tarball states the following: 
>   | The icons in this repository are herefore released into the Public 
> Domain.                                                                 

My understanding is that since they are in public domain and the project as a whole is GPL-3+, they’re covered by that license.

>                                                                         
>                                                          
>   ~~~~~~~~ >8
>  
>   however, there is no such description in the d/copyright file.
>
>   The file share\shutter\resources\credits\art mentions the Tango 
> project. I
>   gather that the icons are in the share\shutter\resources\icons 
> directory. But it
>   is not clear which files exactly ?
>
>   PO translation files have copyright assignments
>   ===============================================
>
>   Not a single one is mentioned in the d/copyright file

That’s on its own is not enough for a reject, as I understand.

> Further please remove all files that are licensed under a CC-2.0 
> license, as it is not compatible with DFSG.

Which files? The Tango icons have been relicensed as PD, so they’re covered by the GPL, as per above.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej



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