Thanks to Paul, Ian and Walter for the replies.
I will strip the PDF file from the tarball, add a link to it in
README.Debian, and also contact the upstream authors for making the
source files available.
Best,
Rafael
* Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> [2016-09-02 08:39]:
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
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