Re: [Flightgear-devel] CC-BY 4.0 textures

[Ludovic B. <lu...@lu...>]

chris wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I just have committed to the Citation II (r754). It adds the files
> "COPYING" and "AUTHORS" to the Aircrafts root directory. As proposed
> by Stuart recently.
> I want to ask your help in doublechecking my efforts.
>
> Especially Syd, Curtis and Ludovic. Please look into the AUTHORS-
> file and check if I got that right. I copied the copyright notice
> from Citation-common.xml. I noticed that Syd isn't mentioned there
> at all...

Because I wrote that file from scratch :)  but I don't mind to share
copyright with Syd or the other authors.

> And anyone, who understands more than me - that's propably everybody
> - about these license and copyright stuff, please check the COPYING-
> file.  I really am uncertain if I got that right...
> Or should I move these textures to some 3rd-party folder or sth???
>
> Any help is very appreciated!

The COPYING file should be an unchanged copy of the GPL version 2,
nothing more and nothing less.  This makes the AUTHORS file the really
interesting one.  For AUTHORS, I recommend the same machine-parseable
format that Debian uses for the mandatory "copyright" files,
documented here:

https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

There, you can place a copy of the CC-BY 4.0 license text.  There is
no need for another copy of the GPL text.  As a side bonus, using
this format makes it trivial for a Debian developer to package the
Citation II for Debian :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.