Re: [gnome-flashback] [gnome-panel/merge-gnome-applets] remove gnome-applets/COPYING-DOCS

[Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>]

Where is problem?

Are you referring to this simple commit deleting COPYING-DOC file? We have same file already in gnome-panel, do we need duplicate file? No.

If pointing to bug and commit message does not count than what counts? From bug comment:

I've added a GPLv2 COPYING file to SVN.

Everywhere I see GPL, but added file was actually LGPL. It is mistake.

Also mate-applets has commit that changes that file to GPL file. But of course this does not count too, right?

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Philipp Kaluza <floss ghostroute eu> wrote:

Am 17.06.2014 10:33, schrieb Alberts Muktupāvels:
> commit 281ec5878c92ef6b992ec23a91f17f6fa8a5ac19
> Author: Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>
> Date:   Tue Jun 17 11:07:47 2014 +0300
>
>     remove gnome-applets/COPYING-DOCS
I have yet to see a proper license review of gnome-applets.
Just pointing to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552770 does
_not_ count.

Are we _sure_ we no longer ship any GFDL documentation ? I'm pretty sure
gnome-applets falling into disrepair predates or at least was around the
time as the start of the pandoc-to-mallard rewrite initiative, which
generally pushed for CC license.

For example, in applets/accessx-status/help/C/ we see
  <!ENTITY legal SYSTEM "legal.xml">
which references the legal.xml in the current dir.
That one clearly states:
  <legalnotice id="legalnotice">
        <para>
          Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
          document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
          License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later version published
          by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections,
          no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  You can find
          a copy of the GFDL at this <ulink type="help"
          url="" or in the file COPYING-DOCS
          distributed with this manual.
         </para>

So in short, it's _NOT_ OK to just start stating random crap about the
code authorship or licensing, and I cannot and will not release
something like that.

Not so cheerful
 Philipp

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Philipp Kaluza
Ghostroute IT Consulting

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Alberts Muktupāvels