Bug#213144: marked as done (bonobo-activation: Contains invalidly
licensed documentation)
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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: bonobo-activation: Contains invalidly licensed documentation
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Package: bonobo-activation
Version: 2.2.4-1 (not installed)
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/bonobo-activation/index.html states:
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 the
Invariant Sections being Tutorial, Configuring, Architecture, Query
Langage, .servver reference, Migrating and API reference with no
Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is
included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
The GFDL states:
A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section of
the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall
subject (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall
directly within that overall subject. (Thus, if the Document is in
part a textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain
any mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical
connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal,
commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding
them.
and:
The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice
that says that the Document is released under this License. If a
section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not
allowed to be designated as Invariant. The Document may contain zero
Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify any Invariant
Sections then there are none.
The sections marked as "invariant" within the bonobo-activation API
reference may not be marked as such under the terms of the GFDL, and as
a result the license is invalid. Without a valid license, we have no
right to redistribute this documentation. The solution is either to
remove the API documentation or convince upstream to fix their license.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux cavan 2.4.20 #2 Sun Dec 8 15:16:58 GMT 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
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Subject: Re: bonobo-activation: Contains invalidly licensed documentation
From: Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>
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> The sections marked as "invariant" within the bonobo-activation API
> reference may not be marked as such under the terms of the GFDL, and
> as a result the license is invalid.
The new api uses this copyright :
"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 no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License"."
So, the "with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts" seems to
be ok. I'm closing this bug.
Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher