Docbook Copyrights

[Burkhard Lück]

Hi Rohan,

cc'ing the license and documentation list here.

Hi
I was packaging kamera 4.6.95 for Kubuntu and noticed that the docbook for
kamera does not state a license. Could you please fix this and add a
COPYING.DOC to the top level dir of kamera which states the entire license.

Rohan, you request to add a file COPYING.DOC with the full text of FDL 1.2 in
kdegraphics/kamera/doc/?

The situation we have now:

1) http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy says about documentation:
FDL versions 1.2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.DOC

2) Afaik in SVN/Git no documentation directory has any License Information

3) The installed Handbooks (docbook type 'book') have a link to the english
version of FDL 1.2 on the front page and in the chapter Credits and License.
Translated docbooks have a link to the english version of FDL 1.2 on the front
page and a link to an inofficial translation or englisch version of FDL 1.2 in
the chapter Credits and License.

4) No license or link in installed articles (e.g. System Settings
documentation)

5) 65 docbook man pages. Only a few of them have GPL license (shouldn't that
be FDL?) in the text.

How to deal with this in the svn/git documentation repos?
Do we need a COPYING.DOC with FDL 1.2 text or with a link to
kdelibs/COPYING.DOC in every top documentation dir?

What about the missing or wrong (GPL) licenses in articles/man pages?

[Jonathan Riddell]

Post by Burkhard Lück
How to deal with this in the svn/git documentation repos?
Do we need a COPYING.DOC with FDL 1.2 text or with a link to
kdelibs/COPYING.DOC in every top documentation dir?

The top level modules all have/had COPYING.DOC files with a full copy
of the FDL 1.2. Where modules have been split up they should be added
to the individual applications.

Post by Burkhard Lück
What about the missing or wrong (GPL) licenses in articles/man pages?

man pages are often generated by starting with the output of running
the command with --help so GPL would be the appropriate licence in
those cases.

Jonathan

[Burkhard Lück]

Post by Jonathan Riddell

Post by Burkhard Lück
How to deal with this in the svn/git documentation repos?
Do we need a COPYING.DOC with FDL 1.2 text or with a link to
kdelibs/COPYING.DOC in every top documentation dir?

The top level modules all have/had COPYING.DOC files with a full copy
of the FDL 1.2. Where modules have been split up they should be added
to the individual applications.

Ok, now I got it, all git repos need a COPYING for the code, COPYING.DOC for
the documentation and COPYING.LIB in case of lgpl code in the top git dir.

A quick check in kdeedu and kdegraphics git repos shows me that most of them
do not fullfill this requirement:

kdegraphics master
14 git repos, but only 5 with a COPYING or a COPYING.LIB file
8 git repos with a doc dir, but only one with COPYING.DOC file

kdeedu master
21 git repos, but only 12 with a COPYING file
20 git repos with a doc dir, but only one with COPYING.DOC file

kde-runtime master no COPYING.DOC
kate master no COPYING or COPYING.DOC
etc.

Seems this should be taken to kde-core-devel?

[Alex Merry]

Post by Burkhard Lück
Ok, now I got it, all git repos need a COPYING for the code, COPYING.DOC for
the documentation and COPYING.LIB in case of lgpl code in the top git dir.
A quick check in kdeedu and kdegraphics git repos shows me that most of them

[snip]

Post by Burkhard Lück
Seems this should be taken to kde-core-devel?

Well, we should probably send emails to k-c-d, kde-edu and kde-graphics
telling/reminding people of this. Perhaps kde-devel as well.

The licensing policy on techbase should also mention this requirement.

Alex

[Jonathan Riddell]

Post by Burkhard Lück

Post by Jonathan Riddell

Post by Burkhard Lück
How to deal with this in the svn/git documentation repos?
Do we need a COPYING.DOC with FDL 1.2 text or with a link to
kdelibs/COPYING.DOC in every top documentation dir?

The top level modules all have/had COPYING.DOC files with a full copy
of the FDL 1.2. Where modules have been split up they should be added
to the individual applications.

Ok, now I got it, all git repos need a COPYING for the code, COPYING.DOC for
the documentation and COPYING.LIB in case of lgpl code in the top git dir.

Yes, any tars we distribute should have a full copy of any copying licences used within them.

Post by Burkhard Lück
Seems this should be taken to kde-core-devel?

Just commit the licence files and it's fixed.

Jonathan

[Rohan Garg]

Hi Burkhard
Ubuntu/Debian archive requirements [0] [1] state that each source package
should have a full license text distributed with their tarballs, the entire
Kubuntu team has been fixing these issues over the past couple of weeks by
placing suitable copyrights at the top level directory of each git
repository, one such example is rocs [2] .

It would be highly appreciated if all the source packages have complete
copyright licenses in the top level source directory, be it documentation
licensing and/or source licensing.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic#Copyright
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-pkgcopyright
[2] https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/rocs/repository
Regards
Rohan Garg

Post by Burkhard Lück
Hi Rohan,
cc'ing the license and documentation list here.

Hi
I was packaging kamera 4.6.95 for Kubuntu and noticed that the docbook

for

kamera does not state a license. Could you please fix this and add a
COPYING.DOC to the top level dir of kamera which states the entire

license.
Rohan, you request to add a file COPYING.DOC with the full text of FDL 1.2 in
kdegraphics/kamera/doc/?
FDL versions 1.2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.DOC
2) Afaik in SVN/Git no documentation directory has any License Information
3) The installed Handbooks (docbook type 'book') have a link to the english
version of FDL 1.2 on the front page and in the chapter Credits and License.
Translated docbooks have a link to the english version of FDL 1.2 on the front
page and a link to an inofficial translation or englisch version of FDL 1.2 in
the chapter Credits and License.
4) No license or link in installed articles (e.g. System Settings
documentation)
5) 65 docbook man pages. Only a few of them have GPL license (shouldn't that
be FDL?) in the text.
How to deal with this in the svn/git documentation repos?
Do we need a COPYING.DOC with FDL 1.2 text or with a link to
kdelibs/COPYING.DOC in every top documentation dir?
What about the missing or wrong (GPL) licenses in articles/man pages?
--
Burkhard LÃŒck