On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Florian Schlichting <f...@debian.org> wrote:
> 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 > I'll look at it this weekend. > > > 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 > > I have no time to spare these days, I'm writing a book and I have a really busy job. I can't even find time to book at flight in two months. Not going to happen for the next 6 months for sure. I'll look at correcting the copyright issue sometime soon. If you can send me a patch you would save me time. Thanks, > Thanks, > Florian >
