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| 5 | <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> |
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| 8 | <title>*markdown-output*</title> |
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| 12 | <body> |
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| 14 | <p>The directory dfsg stands for: Debian Free Software Guidelines, |
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| 15 | see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines</a></p> |
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| 17 | <h1>Making a dfsg-free source package</h1> |
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| 19 | <p>To build an official Debian package, one needs to check thoroughly |
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| 20 | than every source file shipped in it is distributed under a DFSG-free |
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| 21 | license, and give proper credit to the authors inside the file |
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| 22 | debian/copyright which will be included in the debian source package.</p> |
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| 24 | <h2>Non-DFSG-free licenses</h2> |
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| 26 | <p>Some parts of the official source tarball for WIMS are not DFSG-free, |
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| 27 | i.e., they may be free enough for the main concern of a random Wims |
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| 28 | administrator, allowing him to run the server legally, but they are not |
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| 29 | free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.</p> |
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| 31 | <p>Examples of non-dfsg-free parts include packages including third-party |
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| 32 | components with non-free licenses: a non-commercial clause makes a license |
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| 33 | non-free, as well as a clause stating that the only legitimate use is for |
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| 34 | education. More subtle non-free licenses can be the "good, not evil" license |
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| 35 | authored by Douglas Crockford; even if it may be considered as a joke, it |
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| 36 | entails a legal instability which is refused by Debian developers. See |
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| 37 | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#.22Good.2C_not_Evil.22">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#.22Good.2C_not_Evil.22</a>.</p> |
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| 39 | <h2>Uglified "source" code</h2> |
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| 41 | <p>Also, every source file must be human-readable. For the sake of efficiency, |
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| 42 | many javascript files are compressed or "uglified" in order to use less |
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| 43 | bandwidth. If a javascript is compressed, minified or "uglified", it cannot |
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| 44 | be considered as a source file any longer. If so, it must be removed from |
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| 45 | the source package, and the source file yielding it must be included, |
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| 46 | eventually with some way to generate the compressed file upon compilation |
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| 47 | of the source package.</p> |
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| 49 | <h1>Contents of this directory</h1> |
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| 51 | <ul> |
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| 52 | <li><code>README.md</code>: the source file for this information</li> |
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| 53 | <li><code>README.html</code>: this information in HTML format</li> |
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| 54 | <li><code>Makefile</code>: a script for the "make" command, which strips non-dfsg |
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| 55 | parts, and adds eventually third-party non-obfuscated sources for |
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| 56 | javascript files.</li> |
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| 57 | </ul> |
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| 59 | </body> |
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| 60 | </html> |