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Re: please sponsor upload aghermann-1.0



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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