On Tuesday, January 21, 2025 6:03:00 PM MST Xiyue Deng wrote: > >> This should be fine, as the package is using GFDL-1.3 with "no Invariant > >> Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts."[1], which is > >> DFSG compliant (see "Exceptions" on the DFSGLicense Wiki[2]). > > > > 1. You should list this license as GFDL-NIV-1.3, with NIV standing for No > > Invariant Sections. For example, see: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/soren/privacybrowser/-/blob/master/debian/copyright > > ? > > ref_type=heads#L17 > > Thanks for the tip! Though I do have a small concern: in > `/usr/share/common-licenses' the file is name GFDL-1.3. Is it OK to > reference it under a different license identifier?
With many licenses that would be a problem, because the text of the licenses only provide one option. But with the GPL, there are two options, and with the GFDL there are multiple options in the license text itself. Thus, both the GPL-3 and the GPL-3+ reference the same license text, which is located in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3. The difference with the short license names is that they specify which of the options in the license text are used. In the case of the GFDL, the text of the license has the option to use Invariant Sections, including two specific types of invariant sections name Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts. Using the short identifier of GFDL-NIV-1.3 specifies that none of these invariant sections (which are DFSG-non-free) listed as options in the full text of the license are used. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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