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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 122465] New: meinproc is relicensing docs
From:       Ben Burton <bab () debian ! org>
Date:       2006-02-22 6:35:20
Message-ID: 20060222073518.122465.bab () debian ! org
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           Summary: meinproc is relicensing docs
           Product: kdelibs
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: coolo kde org
        ReportedBy: bab debian org


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

Hi,

I have a KDE application whose documentation is licensed under the GPL.
In particular, its index.docbook contains the line:

    <legalnotice>&underGPL;</legalnotice>

When I build the application and meinproc is run over the docbook files,
it generates an HTML title page that looks like:

    Title (large bold heading)

    Author
    Revision number
    Copyright notice

    Legal Notice

    Abstract ...

In past versions of KDE, the legal notice was actually a short blurb
stating which license was used.  Now it is simply a hyperlink with the
two words "Legal Notice".

So: To find out the license, you must click on the "Legal Notice"
hyperlink, and --- it sends you to help:/common/fdl-notice.html, which
states that the documentation is licensed under the GFDL version 1.1 or
later.

I believe this is a serious issue -- the title page that is shown to
users in the help centre should not be offering incorrect license
information, and in some cases (such as GPLed documentation) it is
in fact forbidden to relicense the documentation as GFDL in this way.

As for the cause:  I'm not too familiar with meinproc internals, but I
suspect the culprit is /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/kde-chunk.xsl.
Around lines 90--100 it does look like the fdl-notice is being dropped into
the documentation regardless of what actually appears inside the
<legalnotice> tag.

Commenting out this block in kde-chunk.xsl seems to fix the problem -- the
correct contents of <legalnotice>..</legalnotice> are displayed on the
title page of the HTML documentation (as in earlier KDE versions).

I would appreciate if this could be fixed in the stable branch as well
as in new releases, since (as mentioned above) offering incorrect license
information is a serious issue.

Many thanks,

Ben.
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