Re: Copyright of debian/* in proj?
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 02:34:43PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:22:25AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> >> There never was copyright claimed on the debian directory, and dep5
> >> recommended to leave this out when converting to dep5 format.
> >
> > Really? I never checked this part but it seems totally unlogical to me.
> > A "Files: *" section usually claims copyright for upstream and without
> > having a "Files: debian/*" the debian/ dir inherits the same copyright
> > as upstream which IMHO does not make sense since even I tend to use the
> > same license the copyright owner is different, right?
>
> Policy requires that the upstream copyright is documented, but not the
> Debian packaging (although the examples document debian/* too).
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html#copyright
>
> The ftp-master HOWTO links from the policy states:
>
> "
> - Ideally you include a license statement for your Debian packaging
> also.
> "
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
>
> With the new lintian checks that complain about no copyright for files
> under debian/, it's probably best to always document the license for
> debian/* too, despite this being optional historically.
>
> Because the licensing for debian/* in the proj package was never
> documented, I hope that Peter and/or Francesco can tell me which license
> they intented to use.
>
I generally consider all of my contributions in debian/* as GPL2+, but
for debian/patches/* that retain upstream license for compatibility and future
integration.
> >> Now that proj-datumgrid-1.6RC1 ships binary grids instead of the .lla
> >> source that needs to be build as part of proj, we could move the
> >> datumgrids to their own package and have proj-data depend on it.
> >
> > Fine for me. Just ping me if I should upload
>
> For this revision I'd like to keep the datumgrids as part of the proj
> package. Splitting this out into its own package I'll keep in mind before
> uploading proj 4.9.0 final.
>
> The datumgrids-ch are not part of the upstream proj-datumgrid tarballs, so
> that will remain a Debian customization. And its gsb files are the reason
> for the relatively large debian directory.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
It is ok for IFF the new binary datumgrids were indeed arch-indep, something
that I personlly did not check ATM.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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