RE: Regarding ASF Bugzilla Bug 35555 and Debian Apache package
Thanks. I will forward this to the apache-bugs list.
Nicklas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Conrad [mailto:adconrad@0c3.net]
> Sent: den 1 juli 2005 03:33
> To: Nicklas Bondesson
> Cc: debian-apache@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Regarding ASF Bugzilla Bug 35555 and Debian
> Apache package
>
> Nicklas Bondesson wrote:
> >
> > I just want to make sure that nothing hinders this
> submition (licence
> > etc.).
>
> Debian's general take on patching upstream packages is to
> license it under "the same license as upstream, whatever that
> may be", specifically to make it easier to get patches
> accepted upstream, so we can stop maintaining them.
>
> While I'm not sure who was responsible for this specific
> patch, as a Debian Apache maintainer, and I can be fairly
> sure that no one intended to license it incompatibly (as was
> suggested in the bug, where someone surmised that it was
> probably GPL... Not sure where they'd get that idea from).
>
> All of THAT aside, so little code is changed, and it's mostle
> just shuffling header includes, I'd question if the patch was
> even copyrightable in the first place.
>
> We've submitted many patches upstream in the past, and will
> continue to do so in the future. If this one slipped through
> the cracks, it's only because it was so small and
> insignificant, not because of the license. By all means,
> take it, give it a new home in ASF SVN, let us stop carrying
> it around in our package.
>
> ... Adam
>
>
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