Yaroslav, I have, then, left debian/copyright untouched, but added a few lines explaining what all the fuss is with acinclude.m4, directly in that file just before the copypasted macros it contains. Kindly review the two commits here: https://github.com/hmmr/aghermann/commits/master (git.debian.org is apparently down ATM), and retry building & upload? Cheers, Andrei On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 20:29:24 -0500 Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> wrote: > > 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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