Rv: What license for our packaging?
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Greetings,
Miry
--- El sáb, 23/8/08, Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> escribió:
> De: Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>
> Asunto: What license for our packaging?
> Para: "Debian Games Team" <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Fecha: sábado, 23 agosto, 2008 10:40
> Hello,
>
> (Note that there is a different mail that starts with a
> similar paragraph, so please read both).
>
> Toady I was working on the wormux package and I had to add
> some packaging copyright attribution to
> the debian/copyright[0]. I started modifying the
> debian/copyright file to be automatically parsable,
> then I was struck by the fact that we haven't
> explicitly licensed the wormux packaging, so I was
> unable to do properly the modification.
>
> So, as a team policy, I would like to propose we settle on
> a license that we use for packaging, by
> default[1] for all our packages.
>
>
> I propose that, from now on, we use the BSD license for our
> packaging[2].
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> [0] I 'borrowed' MadCoder's refresh-patches
> mechanism from the tokyocabinet package (seen it in
> MadCoder's packaging with git presentation). I checked
> the license terms/incompatibilities I saw
> that packaging was BSD licensed (cool)
> [1] of course, packages we take over might need
> special-casing for the license and might default to
> other license
> [2] since I found it very useful that MadCoder used the BSD
> license and I was able to use the code
> without any troubles
> --
> Regards,
> EddyP
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