Re: RFS: magic
On Saturday 26 Apr 2008 11:29:01 pm Aanjhan R wrote:
> > You forgot to complete debian/copyright, this is very important.
> > Notice that it embeds a copy of readline while other files seem
> > to be BSD licensed. This is a problem that should be addressed by
> > upstream. Asking him for a proper license notice would help too.
>
> Thanks for the quick look and your valuable remarks. I am not sure of
> what exactly I should be asking upstream. Is there a problem with GPL
> + BSD mix license? Sorry. I am not getting the problem. If you dont
> mind, can you please explain in detail the issue?
Dear Aanjhan,
Looking at readline/README:
"The readline/ directory contains the source for GNU readline-4.3. We
are keeping a copy of the library in the readline/ directory to keep
the magic distribution self-contained."
which is under GPL. You can ask for clear 'Package' license to upstream and
for more clarifications about it. Like many packages has COPYRIGHT file in
source tar.gz.
Look at existing package like recoll (ah, my package) for more details on
how to add license properly.
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