Hello, Helge Kreutzmann <deb...@helgefjell.de> schrieb am So., 16. Mai 2021, 12:27:
> Package: manpages-hu > Version: 20010119-7 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.3 > X-Debbugs-Cc: Mario Blättermann <mario.blaetterm...@gmail.com> > > Short: > man8/ssh.8 states: > .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <y...@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland > .\" All rights reserved > > Long: > The copyright situation is very unclear. I reviewed some files and besides > the above one some are "GNU licensed" (without version), some require > redistribution of copyright information in binary versions (I'm not sure > if > 2.3 Nr.3 remedies this), while others don't come with any statement at all. > And debian/copyright places the burden of proof on the users in case > comercial > distribution is intended (e.g. Debian downstreams like Ubuntu). I wonder > how > this passed debian-legal? > > (This is just a selection, e.g. man.7,tsort.1,as.1 are interesting as > well…) > > I tried looking at the mentioned upstream homepage, i.e. > http://lme.linux.hu/forditas/index.html > but this page is down atm. > > To resolve this bug, I suggest the following: > 1. Remove all pages like ssh.8 which are clearly not distributable > (After contacting with upstream or the respective authors they might > be included in later versions again, if the license is updated) > > 2. Create a machine readable copyright including all authors (both of the > english version and the respective translators) and the respective > licenses. > > 3. Get the copyrights reviewed, e.g. on debian-legal, possibly catching > more pages > which cannot be distributed. > > 4. Check with upstream about a newer version. The pages are *old*. Is this > really a > service to your users? See below for the plans to get rid of this outdated stuff. > 5. Talk to manpages-l10n for integration of those pages, where copyright > allows so. > This way the maintance both for legal reasons and for updating (we use > po4a) is > vastly improved. Bonus if some translators are available, who could > update the > pages (its much easier with po4a). > We are planning to merge the remaining outdated manpages-* packages into manpages-l10n anyway. So manpages-hu will be the next candidate for the import. I will create a framework for Hungarian soon, and import the old files step by step. The creation of the translated versions remains disabled until the import is finished; once it is done, manpages-hu needs to be removed from Debian to avoid package conflicts. Best Regards, Mario
