Re: COPYING file in UnixUtils
Done.
I uploaded a newer version to hackage. It includes other changes that
had not been uploaded to hackage as well. See the darcs repo for full
details, http://src.seereason.com/haskell-unixutils
- jeremy
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+hs@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> I am looking at updating the version of unixutils in Debian.
>
> One of the recent changes in Debian is that due to the many
> variants of the BSD license, Debian no longer keeps a copy of
> the BSD license at /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD.
>
> This usually means that the package's debian/copyright should
> copy the license file included in the package. Unfortunately
> you UnixUtils package's COPYING file contains just three
> letters:
>
> BSD
>
> While that is good enough for most users grabbing thepackage
> from Hackage, it will not pass the standard required by the
> Debian package gatekeepers.
>
> The DHG group would very much appreciate it if you could update
> the COPYING file in your package with the full license text. I
> have included a copy of the standard 3 clause BSD license below.
> All you need to do is replace "Your Name" and the copyright
> years.
>
> Regards,
> Erik
>
> Copyright Your Name YYYY-YYYY
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>
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>
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>
> * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
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>
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> Erik de Castro Lopo
> http://www.mega-nerd.com/
>
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