Package: harden-doc Version: 3.2.4 Severity: minor Hi! harden-doc copyright file clearly states that the _Securing Debian Manual_ is released under the GNU GPL license (version 2 or later).
Good! :) On the other hand, the copyright notice included in the document itself (in the HTML version, for instance) says: | Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña | | Copyright © 2001 Alexander Reelsen, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña | | Copyright © 2000 Alexander Reelsen | | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document | under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any | later version published by the Free Software Foundation. It is | distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY | WARRANTY. | | Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this | document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice | are preserved on all copies. | | Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of | this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided | that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the | terms of a permission notice identical to this one. | | Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this | document into another language, under the above conditions for | modified versions, except that this permission notice may be | included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation | instead of in the original English. The last three paragraphs have nothing to do with the GPLv2, and confuse the reader (IMHO). It's not clear if they are additional permissions (no, they are not, since the copyright file tells a different story and clearly states that the only license is the GNU GPL version 2 or later) or something else. The canonical copyright notice for a work released under the GNU GPL v2 or later is something along the lines of | Copyright (c)i 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña | | Copyright (c) 2001 Alexander Reelsen, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña | | Copyright (c) 2000 Alexander Reelsen | | This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | (at your option) any later version. | | This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | GNU General Public License for more details. | | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA | 02110-1301, USA Could you please clarify the copyright notice? Thank you very much! -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.31 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- no debconf information
