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Re: RFS: ext3grep



On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:48:33PM -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>> Is the Right Thing to do here to modify the orig.tar.gz to contain the 
>> GPLv2 files, to have a patch modify the license headers appropriately 
>> (eww) at compile-time, or something else?
>
> The most reasonable thing to do is to both:
>
> 1. Modify the files after you unpack the tarball, but before you build 
> the package, and
>
> 2. Explain the reasoning for the patch in the debian/copyright file.

Imho, the right thing to do is to use ext3grep-0.6.0, which already
has GPLv2 for backtrace.*

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>


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