Hi Soren,

Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> writes:

> On Monday, January 20, 2025 10:17:33 PM MST Xiyue Deng wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>> 
>> Once again I'm missing your mail and am not able to provide a timely
>> reply (sad).  Anyway, please see my replies below.
>> 
>> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 06:47:08 +0000 Phil Wyett <philip.wy...@kathenas.org> 
>> wrote:
>> > Control: tags -1 +moreinfo
>> > 
>> > Xiyue,
>> > 
>> > Preamble...
>> > 
>> > Thank you for taking the time to prepare this package and your contribution
>> > to the Debian project.
>> > 
>> > This review is offered to help package submitters to Debian mentors inorder
>> > to improve their packages prior to possible sponsorship into Debian. There
>> > is no obligation on behalf of the submitter to make any alterations based
>> > upon information provided in the review.
>> > 
>> > Review...
>> > 
>> > 1. Build:
>> >   * pbuilder [1]: Good
>> >   * sbuild [2]: Good
>> > 
>> > 2. Lintian [3]: Good
>> > 
>> > 3. Licenses [4]: Issue
>> > 
>> > philwyett@ks-tarkin:~/Development/builder/debian/geiser-0.31.1$ lrc
>> > en: Versions: recon 3.3  check 3.3.9-1
>> > 
>> > Parsing Source Tree  ....
>> > Reading d/copyright  ....
>> > Running licensecheck ....
>> > 
>> > d/copyright      | licensecheck
>> > 
>> > GFDL-1.3         | GFDL-1.3+         doc/geiser.texi
>> 
>> 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?

> 2.  I think the actual question being raised is if this GFDL-NIV-1.3 or 
> GFDL-NIV-1.3+.
>

It's indeed GFDL(-NIV)-1.3+.  Will update.

> -- 
> Soren Stoutner
> so...@debian.org

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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