On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 11:37:03PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 05:00:09PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > > as you somehow add jquery.js to your doc-package, please add its license > > to your debian/copyright. > > The jquery.js is installed by doxygen in the documentation process. It > does not belong to the source package (the full autogenerated > documentation provided by upstream was intentionally removed to avoid > compressed JS files). I wonder why I should add licenses of files that > are not part of the source package and do not even have an idea how I > could do this syntactically correctly - lintian would claim an unused > copyright paragraph and IMHO lintian is correct here.
I believe that Thorsten was not aware of this common exception. Traditionally, Doxygen emebeds a file jquery.js into documentation trees. Despite the name, jquery.js is not JQuery, but an compilation of various BSD-ish licensed JS libraries. I asked whether dh_doxygen should be helping with the creation of Built-Using headers, but no consensus was reached on whether they are needed, which is why it doesn't do today. Instead of blaming this mess on a random Doxygen user, I'd expect participation in a discussion on how to solve it for all users. Though given that doxygen is a key package, it is (like perl) too big to fail, so we don't do anything about it beyond documenting[1] the issue. Can we move on now? Helmut [1] /usr/share/doc/doxygen/README.jquery
