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Bug#753842: marked as done (lintian: superfluous comma in gfdl license template [license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text])

Your message dated Sun, 06 Jul 2014 14:58:59 +0000
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and subject line Done: lintian: superfluous comma in gfdl license template [license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text]
has caused the Debian Bug report #753842,
regarding lintian: superfluous comma in gfdl license template [license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text]
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.24
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hello,
The description of license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text

-----
Please ask upstream to always use (case insensitive):
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts.
-----

does not exactly match the FSF template
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt.en.html>:

-----
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover
Texts.
----

The FSF template does not use a comma in front of "and".

I have no idea which of the two variants uses correct punctuation, but
the FSF variant should be the official one, shouldn't it?

Trivial patch against git HEAD attached.

cu Andreas

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>From 7f77d16ab578aa180828777da9bbcb748ce44c9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 19:04:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix punctuation in gfdl text template

Copy license notice from
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt.en.html
---
 checks/cruft.desc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/checks/cruft.desc b/checks/cruft.desc
index 51025d4..a235692 100644
--- a/checks/cruft.desc
+++ b/checks/cruft.desc
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ Info: The given source file is licensed under GFDL, but using a
  non-official text for the "no invariant sections" part.
  .
  Please ask upstream to always use (case insensitive):
- with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
+ with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.
 
 Tag: license-problem-nvidia-intellectual
 Severity: serious
-- 
2.0.0

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Hello,
> The description of license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text
> 
> -----
> Please ask upstream to always use (case insensitive):
> with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
> Texts.
> -----
> 
> does not exactly match the FSF template
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt.en.html>:
> 
> -----
> with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover
> Texts.
> ----
> 
> The FSF template does not use a comma in front of "and".
> 
> I have no idea which of the two variants uses correct punctuation, but
> the FSF variant should be the official one, shouldn't it?
According to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html (the official license text).

ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page:

    Copyright (C)  YEAR  YOUR NAME.
    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
    under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
    or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
    with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
    A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
    Free Documentation License".


See the comma

So you should open a bug against gnu website.

Bastien

PS: this tag is really nitpitting but they are a lot of variant for this kind of text that are more different than a comma.

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