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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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