2016-02-04 14:50 GMT-02:00 Wookey <woo...@wookware.org>:

> +++ Gustavo S. L. [2016-02-04 11:37 -0200]:
> > hello mentors
> >
> > lintian say that about one party for my archive by copyright "The files
> > paragraph in the machine readable copyright file references a license,
> for
> > which no standalone license paragraph exists"
>
> Right. I hit this recently for ros-rviz, which has tongoproject icons
> (public domain). It insisted on a licence paragraph even where there
> wasn't one.
>
>
> > but in the manual of the copyright that if license is public-domain "the
> > remaining lines of the field must explain exactly what exemption the
> > corresponding files for that paragraph have from default copyright
> > restrictions"
> >
> > but I did not find example
>
> I just copied the text of the public domain statement from the website in
> this case:
>
> https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/r/ros-rviz/copyright-1.11.10%2Bdfsg-1
>
> (which then cause another (wrong) lintian warning about the GPL as
> that is mentioned in the text)
>
> That text came from the bottom of http://tango.freedesktop.org/
> Can you find a similar statement for your project?
>
>
Thanks Wookey,

I did this: "License: public-domain
 No license required for any purpose; the work is not subject to copyright
in
 any jurisdiction.
"


> HTH
>
> Wookey
> --
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> http://wookware.org/
>



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