[Evolution] Bug#406337: evolution-common: The user manual contains a copyright notice which renders it non-free

Yavor Doganov yavor at doganov.org
Wed Jan 10 14:13:34 UTC 2007


Package: evolution-common
Version: 2.6.3-3
Severity: serious

This bug might be tagged "etch-ignore" if there is confirmation from
upstream that the licence is GFDL and that this will be fixed.

The user manual
/usr/share/gnome/help/evolution-2.6/C/evolution-2.6.xml contains the
following copyright notice:

,---- 
| Copyright © 2005-2006 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. No part
| of this publication may be reproduced, photocopied, stored on a
| retrieval system, or transmitted without the express written consent
| of the publisher.
`----

I see that COPYING-DOCS in the tarball contains GFDL (and it is
present in the "help" directory in SVN trunk) so this might be some
kind of mistake.  Since this notice totally contradicts with the
spirit of GNU FDL it is not clear what the actual license is.  

Also, debian/copyright says that the documentation is under GFDL and
cannot be included in Debian which is kind of false (at least, it is
included).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)




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