Package: nautilus
Version: 3.8.2-2
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer,

while packaging Caja from the MATE Desktop project for Debian, I
stumbled over a severe issue with the debian/copyright file of
nautilus and its upstream tarball.

(1) the debian/copyright file is incomplete. Several LGPL-2+ files
from the upstream tarball (libnautilus-extension1a package) are not
covered by debian/copyright.

(2) the upstream source tarball contains a COPYING-DOCS file
(containing a version of the GNU FDL-1.1+ license). This file probably
relates to the docs/ folder in the upstream tarball (it is not quite
clear). These files should not be in Debian as the GNU FDL-1.1+ is not
considered as a DFSG compliant license by the Debian project [1].

For Caja the solutions are:

(for 1) provide a detailled license file, compliant to DEP-5 proposal
(for 2) drop nearly all files found in the docs/ folder (except man pages)

light+love,
Mike

# package is dfsg free, see below
severity 738537 important
thanks

This needs updating.

This file is a leftover for the help/ subdir that was present in nautilus
pre-2.0 (e.g. nautilus 1.1.1). Those were released under the GFDL. Nothing is
licensed under the GFDL anymore so this is fine. In any case, even if something
was released under the GFDL, it would have to specify any Invariant Section for
it to be considered non-free. There are no mentions of invariant sections so
we're fine. I'll ask upstream to remove that file from the repo.

Emilio

Hi Emilio,

Feel free to re-use parts of my current effort on Caja's debian/copyright [1].

That is good news! Thanks for clearing this up!

Mike

[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mate/caja.git;a=blob;f=debian/copyright