Hi, i've already wrote that i work on a migration of swi-prolog package to machine-readable d/copyright. I have some more questions and need your advises. There are several files which contain a copyright notice stating that these files are in public domain. Well, I understand the difficulty and problems regarding public domain, and read some previous discussions on debian-legal@l.d.o. These copyright notices are (for example):
This code is in the public domain and has no copyright. Or: The libtai code is in the public domain, so you can use it in your own programs. Others contain just something like as follows (from the package documentation): This example code is in the public domain. I believe that for a great bulk of these public domain files I can get a special notice or explanation (if it is necessary), since the author of these files is one of the authors and the current maintainer of SWI-Prolog itself. So, the main question is what to do with these files, and if it is OK to keep them (maybe asking upstream for some clarification of their copyright statements), then how to corretly fill the d/copyright file? I mean that 7.1.1 of Machine-readable debian/copyright file (version 1.0) is not clear for me. Currently I have something like as follows: Files: packages/clib/demo/* packages/http/examples/demo_daemon.pl packages/xpce/man/course/bib.pl packages/xpce/man/course/fam.pl packages/xpce/man/course/ftp.pl packages/xpce/man/course/learner.pl packages/xpce/man/course/lib/prompt.pl packages/xpce/man/userguide/examples/graphedit.pl packages/xpce/man/info/dialog.pl packages/xpce/man/info/which.pl packages/xpce/man/info/window.pl packages/xpce/src/gnu/getdate.c packages/cpp/likes.cpp packages/cpp/test.cpp packages/cpp/test.pl src/libtai/* src/tools/functions.pm src/tools/update-deps scripts/swipl-bt customize/dotxpcerc library/dialect/bim.pl License: public-domain As I understand I should put some explanations right after 'License: public-domain', right? And what to do with lintian warnings: W: swi-prolog source: missing-field-in-dep5-copyright copyright (paragraph at line 244) W: swi-prolog source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright public-domain (paragraph at line 244) Should I override them? With regards, Lev Lamberov