On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:18:50PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Andrew Suffield writes: > > Package: cpp > > Severity: serious > > > > The manpages fsf-funding(7), gpl(7), and gfdl(7) are included in the > > cpp package. These are clearly non-free (non-modifiable). > > this doesn't make sense. you are not allowed to change a copyright, > even for software distributed in main. AFAIK the distribution of > license texts is allowed in main, even if the license itself is > non-free. I'd like a confirmation from debian-legal, as I don't see > something about this in "2.1, Package copyright and sections".
License texts, yes. Manpages, no. > > [Plus they aren't mentioned in the copyright file, which claims the > > package is GPLed] > > how should a copyright of a license text included in the > debian/copyright file? See above; I see here three manpages, not two license texts. > > and #181495 should instead be fixed by eliminating the references > > from the cpp manpage (possibly inserting references to > > /usr/share/common-licenses). > > doesn't help, as the GFDL isn't in common-licenses. Let's break this down, then: fsf-funding(7): no excuse there gpl(7): that can be replaced with a reference to /usr/share/misc/common-licenses gfdl(7): that's included (as text, rather than a tagged manpage) in /usr/share/cpp-3.3/copyright already, and is therefore redundant -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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