On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > [Please, Cc to me, since I am not subscribed to debian-legal.]
Done. > I am considering to package Divand [1], an add-on package for Octave. The > current upstream tarball [2] contains a PDF file [3] with the following > copyright and licensing conditions: "© Author(s) 2014. CC Attribution 3.0 > License." > > Would it be okay to include this file in the Debian package? You can find answers to this question in the FTP-master reject FAQ: https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html > Source missing: > > Your package contains files that need source but do not have it. > These include PDF and PS files in the documentation, or auto-generated files. > > Generated files > Your package contains generated files (such as compressed .js libraries) > without > corresponding original form. They're not considered as the preferred form of > modification, so you will either have to provide corresponding original form, > or remove them from your tarball, eventually depending on an already > available packages to provide missing features. Based on the other replies you got, the PDF is clearly a generated, sourceless file that the ftp-masters would reject having in Debian. Personally, I would suggest talking to the author of the paper to provide their sources and other data publicly. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
