Hi Martin, thanks for your swift reply!
> > 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. No, the reason it was removed is that it was decided to not include QT3 in the wheezy (current stable) release, and the QT4 version of xxdiff was not ready then. If the screenshots were part of the old package, the copyright stanza was never noticed, I think. But in order to become part of Debian again now, xxdiff needs to go through the same checks as any completely new package, and as part of the copyright vetting the above notice raised a red flag... > Where do you find this Copyright notice? > I should change it, never realized it was a problem. basically all HTML files related to the screenshots: [fschlich@Indo] 6503 (src/xxdiff): grep -r 'All images and' doc/screenshots/allindex.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/dirindex.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/sortindex.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-about.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-dirs2.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-doc.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-files2.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-files3.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-merged.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-opt1.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-opt2.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-opt3.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-opt4.html:All images and material are doc/screenshots/xxdiff-snap-opt5.html:All images and material are > 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. I'm very glad to hear that! Apart from those copyright changes, I think fixing compilation with bison3 would be the most useful to have in a release. See http://sourceforge.net/p/xxdiff/bugs/229/ for the issue and my bison3.patch in the last comment. If you have time to spare, you could have a look through all the patches the Debian package accumulated over time; but some of those may be Debian-specific and forwarding them properly is on my TODO list, so no obligation to do anything now: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/xxdiff.git;a=tree;f=debian/patches Thanks, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140718134712.gn111...@zedat.fu-berlin.de
