GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 737918
TOC addin license fixme?
Last modified: 2014-10-19 12:19:43 UTC
In gnote 3.14.x and master help docs for the TOC addin (help/*/gnote-addin-tableofcontents.page), the license header have a few FIXMEs that I wanted to ask about, i.e. <!-- "Table of Contents" is a Note add-in for Gnote. It lists a note's table of contents in a menu. Copyright (c) 2013 Luc Pionchon <pionchon.luc@gmail.com> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. FIXME: is this true? (no invariant, no front, no back?) FIXME: does the statement have to show in the rendered document? A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". FIXME: is this true? Is there a (GNOME? Yelp?) common GFDL topic? --> As Debian/Ubuntu's gnote maintainer, I'm concerned about the first FIXME in there; if the TOC addin's documentation is licensed under the GFDL *without* the no invariant/front/back clauses, then it's not distributable in Debian [1]. Cc-ing Luc along with this bug report. Just to confirm, did you intend on licensing the above documentation under GFDL with no invariant/front/back texts, and if so, could that FIXME be removed from the license header? It's tripping Debian's automated lintian checks. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#GNU_Free_Documentation_License_.28GFDL.29
Hi, My intention is that it is distributable, under a free license. So of course we'll change everything that I may have done wrong, so it is distributable, under a free license. > I'm concerned about the first FIXME in there; > if the TOC addin's documentation is licensed under the GFDL *without* > the no invariant/front/back clauses, then it's not distributable in Debian I don't fully remember that FIXME, but I guess that I was just wondering what's the point of this line, as there is actually no front or back cover (it's not a book). > Cc-ing Luc along with this bug report. Just to confirm, > did you intend on licensing the above documentation under GFDL > with no invariant/front/back texts, and if so, > could that FIXME be removed from the license header? yes About the other FIXMEs, > FIXME: does the statement have to show in the rendered document? I think it should, but it is not. > A copy of the license is included in the section entitled > "GNU Free Documentation License". > FIXME: is this true? Is there a (GNOME? Yelp?) common GFDL topic? In fact there is not such section in the yelp page, and I am not aware of a GFDL topic in yelp. > It's tripping Debian's automated lintian checks. ah ah :)
Created attachment 287800 [details] [review] patch to remove redundant GFDL-related FIXME
>> I'm concerned about the first FIXME in there; >> if the TOC addin's documentation is licensed under the GFDL *without* >> the no invariant/front/back clauses, then it's not distributable in Debian > > I don't fully remember that FIXME, but I guess that I was just wondering what's > the point of this line, as there is actually no front or back cover (it's not a > book). I think it's there just because it's the standard GFDL (w/ no invariant/front/back) boilerplate text, and also because Debian insists on the no-invariant clause being added to every usage of GFDL to make it DFSG-compatible (regardless of the presence of actual front/back cover texts). >> Cc-ing Luc along with this bug report. Just to confirm, >> did you intend on licensing the above documentation under GFDL >> with no invariant/front/back texts, and if so, >> could that FIXME be removed from the license header? > > yes Great, thanks for the clarification Luc! :) I've attached a (very trivial) patch that removes that one FIXME; would it be possible to backport that to 3.14.x as well? Thanks!
Review of attachment 287800 [details] [review]: all good for me
Fixed, will be included in the next release in 3.14 series.