<div dir="ltr">Hi Burkhard<div>Ubuntu/Debian archive requirements [0] [1] state that each source package should have a full license text distributed with their tarballs, the entire Kubuntu team has been fixing these issues over the past couple of weeks by placing suitable copyrights at the top level directory of each git repository, one such example is rocs [2] .</div>
<div><br></div><div>It would be highly appreciated if all the source packages have complete copyright licenses in the top level source directory, be it documentation licensing and/or source licensing.</div><div><div><br>
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<div>[0] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic#Copyright">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic#Copyright</a></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-pkgcopyright">http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-pkgcopyright</a></div>
<div>[2] <a href="https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/rocs/repository">https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/rocs/repository</a><br clear="all"><div dir="ltr">Regards<div>Rohan Garg</div></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Burkhard Lück <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lueck@hube-lueck.de">lueck@hube-lueck.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Rohan,<br>
<br>
cc'ing the license and documentation list here.<br>
<br>
Am Freitag, 8. Juli 2011, um 12:21:14 schrieben Sie:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi<br>
> I was packaging kamera 4.6.95 for Kubuntu and noticed that the docbook for<br>
> kamera does not state a license. Could you please fix this and add a<br>
> COPYING.DOC to the top level dir of kamera which states the entire license.<br>
><br>
</div></div>Rohan, you request to add a file COPYING.DOC with the full text of FDL 1.2 in<br>
kdegraphics/kamera/doc/?<br>
<br>
The situation we have now:<br>
<br>
1) <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy" target="_blank">http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy</a> says about documentation:<br>
FDL versions 1.2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.DOC<br>
<br>
2) Afaik in SVN/Git no documentation directory has any License Information<br>
<br>
3) The installed Handbooks (docbook type 'book') have a link to the english<br>
version of FDL 1.2 on the front page and in the chapter Credits and License.<br>
Translated docbooks have a link to the english version of FDL 1.2 on the front<br>
page and a link to an inofficial translation or englisch version of FDL 1.2 in<br>
the chapter Credits and License.<br>
<br>
4) No license or link in installed articles (e.g. System Settings<br>
documentation)<br>
<br>
5) 65 docbook man pages. Only a few of them have GPL license (shouldn't that<br>
be FDL?) in the text.<br>
<br>
How to deal with this in the svn/git documentation repos?<br>
Do we need a COPYING.DOC with FDL 1.2 text or with a link to<br>
kdelibs/COPYING.DOC in every top documentation dir?<br>
<br>
What about the missing or wrong (GPL) licenses in articles/man pages?<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Burkhard Lück<br>
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