[kde-doc-english] Re: Docbook Copyrights

[Burkhard Lück]

Hi Rohan,

cc'ing the license and documentation list here.

Am Freitag, 8. Juli 2011, um 12:21:14 schrieben Sie:
> Hi
> I was packaging kamera 4.6.95 for Kubuntu and noticed that the docbook for
> kamera does not state a license. Could you please fix this and add a
> COPYING.DOC to the top level dir of kamera which states the entire license.
> 
Rohan, you request to add a file COPYING.DOC with the full text of FDL 1.2 in 
kdegraphics/kamera/doc/?

The situation we have now:

1) http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy says about documentation:
FDL versions 1.2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.DOC

2) Afaik in SVN/Git no documentation directory has any License Information

3) The installed Handbooks (docbook type 'book') have a link to the english 
version of FDL 1.2 on the front page and in the chapter Credits and License.
Translated docbooks have a link to the english version of FDL 1.2 on the front 
page and a link to an inofficial translation or englisch version of FDL 1.2 in 
the chapter Credits and License.

4) No license or link in installed articles (e.g. System Settings 
documentation)

5) 65 docbook man pages. Only a few of them have GPL license (shouldn't that 
be FDL?) in the text.

How to deal with this in the svn/git documentation repos?
Do we need a COPYING.DOC with FDL 1.2 text or with a link to 
kdelibs/COPYING.DOC in every top documentation dir?

What about the missing or wrong (GPL) licenses in articles/man pages?

-- 
Burkhard Lück