Re: jquery debate with upstream
Joachim Breitner <nomeata <at> debian.org> writes:
> Before this thread gets too long and we hear too many opinion from
> people don’t have a say in this (like me), I’d like to hear an official
> statement from the ftp-team on the question:
>
> Does Debian tolerate files in upstream tarballs that are (1)
> legally distributable and (2) not used in any way during the
> build, even if they do not come with their preferred form of
> modification?
This is a good summary of it.
I don’t have the source of it at hand (and IANAftpmaster), but
right now, the answer is NO because the promise of the DFSG and
surrounding documents also extends to not just the source pak-
kages but also the distfiles (*.orig.tar.*) isolated. Basically,
it extends to every single file in the distribution.
(Long ago, an upload of mine was rejected because I added a
licence file to the upstream portion of the package based on
information from upstream, in the .diff.gz – the next upload
contained the licencing information in the .orig.tar.gz and
all was fine.)
bye,
//mirabilos
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