Package: doxygen Version: 1.6.2+20100208-0.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream
Hi Matthias, The debian/copyright file for doxygen is currently a bit confusing: - It says that the license does not apply to various things, which would mean one has less freedom to use those things, though I suspect that is not intended; - It refers to the “GNU General Public License” without specifying which version. Both issues reflect what the upstream copyright notice and license grant says; for example, from doxygen.cpp: * Copyright (C) 1997-2010 by Dimitri van Heesch. * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation under the terms of the GNU General Public License is hereby * granted. No representations are made about the suitability of this software * for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. * See the GNU General Public License for more details. * * Documents produced by Doxygen are derivative works derived from the * input used in their production; they are not affected by this license. Would it be possible to clarify these things with upstream? Ideally, I would like this to say Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation is hereby granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. See LICENSE for more details. Documents produced by Doxygen are copyright the authors of the input used in their production. You can do whatever you want with portions that come from Doxygen. though if something else is intended (GPL-2 only?), that is fine, too. Thoughts? Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
