Re: please sponsor upload aghermann-1.0
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, andrei zavada wrote:
> > - there seems to be some new copyrighted code which is not listed under
> > debian/copyright
> > +# Copyright (c) 2008 Tim Toolan <toolan@ele.uri.edu>
> > +# Copyright (c) 2013 Tim Perkins <tprk77@gmail.com>
> > +# Copyright (c) 2013 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Good point.
> The acinclude.m4 contains two autoconf macros normally picked up during
> autoreconf, by aclocal from /usr/aclocal/ac-archive (or some such).
> I copied these two macros from aclocal-archive into my tree in order to
> overcome some unexplained failures to detect lua in ubuntu.
> This is where they come from, and why.
ah - didn't check where they came from... may be we could just skip
them for now (given that exception for autoconf tools scripts)
> I assume the following extracts from respective copyright notices should
> suffice (the first one doesn't explicitly say it's GPL, although it
> really must be GPL due to its origin; please double-check?):
> -------------
> Files: acinclude.m4
> Copyright: 2008 Tim Toolan <toolan@ele.uri.edu>
> License:
> Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
> permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice
> and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is, without any
> warranty.
> Files: acinclude.m4
> Copyright: 2013 Tim Perkins <tprk77@gmail.com>
> Copyright: 2013 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> License: GPL
> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
> Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
> option) any later version.
> .
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
> Public License for more details.
> .
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
> with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> .
> As a special exception, the respective Autoconf Macro's copyright owner
> gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify the configure
> scripts that are the output of Autoconf when processing the Macro. You
> need not follow the terms of the GNU General Public License when using
> or distributing such scripts, even though portions of the text of the
> Macro appear in them. The GNU General Public License (GPL) does govern
> all other use of the material that constitutes the Autoconf Macro.
> .
> This special exception to the GPL applies to versions of the Autoconf
> Macro released by the Autoconf Archive. When you make and distribute a
> modified version of the Autoconf Macro, you may extend this special
> exception to the GPL to apply to your modified version as well.
> ----------------
> > - prev release 0.9.2 was never uploaded to Debian so please list as
> > UNRELEASED
> Corrected. Sorry for this.
cool... that is minor
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