package org-mode retitle 540736 org-mode: copyright describes non-free license terms for documentation tags 540736 + patch thanks
On 10-Aug-2009, Sebastien Delafond wrote: > On Aug/10, Ben Finney wrote: > > The documentation for ‘org-mode’ is distributed under a non-free > > license [0], according to ‘debian/copyright’: > > The upstream author is already dual-licensing a version of his > documentation, available at: > > http://orgmode.org/org_dual_license.texi Ah, that's good to know. > It's the version that I use in my package; I agree my phrasing in > debian/copyright is slightly misleading, perhaps it should read more > something like: The verbatim grant of license from the copyright holder (the upstream author) needs to go into ‘debian/copyright’ to state exactly what gives the Debian project the right to exercise the license terms. The above file doesn't seem to be part of the distribution of org-mode. We should best rely on a grant of license given within the work itself, rather than an independently-changeable document at a URL. Probably the best way to do that is to include the above file in the source package somehow. If you could convince the upstream maintainer to make that file a standard part of the source distribution that would be simpler. > Or not mention the GFDL restrictions at all, since we use the GPL > licensing of the documentation anyway ? What do you think ? I think, since by our policy we are not distributing under the FDL, we should show the text from the upstream source work that grants us permission under the GPL. My suggestion for changes to ‘debian/copyright’ are attached as a patch. That license grant doesn't specify any particular version of the GPL, which I believe is commonly taken as grant to exercise the terms of *any* published version of that license; hence the whole work can reference the latest GPL in Debian, version 3. -- \ “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a | `\ dog, it's too dark to read.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
=== modified file 'debian/copyright'
--- debian/copyright 2009-08-10 07:22:17 +0000
+++ debian/copyright 2009-08-10 07:21:24 +0000
@@ -60,26 +60,33 @@
org-mode's documentation:
=========================
- Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation
-
- org-mode's orgcard is licensed under the GPL, and org-mode's manual
- is dual licensed under the GPL and GFDL (with the following
- restrictions:
-
- 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 the Front-Cover texts
- being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
- below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
- "GNU Free Documentation License."
-
- (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have freedom to copy and
- modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by
- the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.")
-
-On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
-and GNU Free Documentation License can be found in
-
- /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
- /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL
+
+ orgcard.tex
+ -----------
+
+ % Copyright (C) 1987, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
+ % 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ % This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+ % GNU Emacs 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 3 of the License, or
+ % (at your option) any later version.
+
+
+ The Org Manual
+ --------------
+
+ Debian exercises the following copyright license grant from the
+ file ‘org_dual_license.texi’ in the source:
+
+ Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation
+
+ Permission is also granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
+ under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with GNU Emacs. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
+
+On Debian systems, the complete text of version 3 of the GNU General
+Public License can be found in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3’.
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