Dear Maintainer,

In the process of trying to teach myself the ropes of Xfce development
I realized that that xfdesktop4-data is missing required copyrigh notices.

backgrounds/README.md lists creative-commons licenses (CC-BY-SA-4.0) for
almost all of Xfce's standard desktop background images. However, the
copyright file in xfdesktop4-data binary package only lists the
GPL license that applies to the xfdesktop4 more broadly.

As requested on the mailing list, I am opening a proper bug for this
and also providing a patch. The patch is relative to the forky/sid version
of the copyright file, but also applies to trixie with only the ending
context changed.

The three oldest attributions (to Pasi) I believe apply even to bullseye
and the next three (to Denis and Katerinra) should apply to bookworm.

A few of the credited users have changed their display names in Xfce's
gitlab since creating the files. I have listed their current name
preferences rather than the at-time-of-submission names given in
in backgrounds/README.md. This changes:
Rose Pierce (rowie324) --> Rowan Amanita (same username)
Denis Kuzminok (DenDrop) --> Denis Kuznetsky (Denmoon)

For most of these contributors a public email is not apparent in Xfce gitlab,
so I have followed the README in including links to their gitlab profiles
in order to clearly identify them.

Thanks,
Timothy Gaskell

control: tag -1 pending

Hey Timothy,

many thanks for the bug, the investigation and the patch! That should be part
of the next upload.

Regards,

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xfdesktop4, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1135185@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> (supplier of updated xfdesktop4 package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:05:38 +0200
Source: xfdesktop4
Architecture: source
Version: 4.20.2-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers <debian-xfce@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
Closes: 1135185
Changes:
 xfdesktop4 (4.20.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Timothy Gaskell ]
   * d/copyright: add copyright entries for desktop background (Closes: #1135185)
 .
   [ Yves-Alexis Perez ]
   * d/copyright updated using decopy
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