Hi Wayne, Am 27.01.19 um 19:14 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh: > Carsten, > > The metadata (which I assumed to be defined as libraries, templates, and > samples but maybe my thinking is incorrect here) license is > CC-BY-SA-4.0. What "required parts" are missing that would resolve the > Debian copyright information?
well, Lintian is "just" a QS tool that tries to be smart. :) In general Lintian is looking at the whole files, and this is the source and also in the created packages. As the libraries are not included in the src:kicad package it can't find any references to CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed files in the copyright file and thus is prints out a warning. "Heh, I've found a mention of some general CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed files but I haven't found any it in the copyright file!" Lintian doesn't know here of any other source packages that might depend on KiCad. I can override this warning with a small explaining and pointing what this line in appdata.xml is intended for. I suggest you or someone else simply write some lines that KiCad is relaying on other parts (like libraries) which are licensed as CC-BY-SA-4.0 which I can point to. I personally would drop that line in appdata.xml and just add this information and relationship of KiCad to other parts in LICENSE.README. The demos have no extra license statement so they are covered by the licenses for KiCad. All other parts like libraries, documentation, l10n are organized in dedicated trees with also own license information. -- Regards Carsten Schoenert _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
