On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Florian Schlichting <f...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Martin Blais, > > I'm trying to make a new Debian package for xxdiff, after the old one > was removed a few years ago along with the obsolete QT libraries. > Unfortunately, my package was not acceptable because it contained the > HTML documentation in doc/, including the screenshots, with the same > text as on your website: > > All images and material are Copyright © 2001 Martin Blais, Montreal, > Canada. All Rights Reserved. Images may not be used without written > permission. If you would like to license or use an image, please > contact bl...@furius.ca Oh wow... is this why it was removed? Why wasn't I contacted? This is silly. Where do you find this Copyright notice? I should change it, never realized it was a problem. Could you please clarify if that statement stands, even though the > images are distributed as part of the xxdiff tarball, which is licensed > under the GPL? If so, the screenshot docs are undistributeable and will > have to be removed from the Debian package. Otherwise, it would be good > if the copyright statement can be removed from the HTML distributed in > the tarball (and perhaps include the bison3 fix while at it?) > I'm totally fine with the packaging and distribution of anything related to xxdiff. I made it GNU for that reason! If anything needs to be changed, let me know where and I will change it. > > Thank you for your work on xxdiff, my favorite graphical diff tool! > Florian > Thanks for packaging it Florian.
