Bug#819395: RFS: stormlib-listfiles/2015-04-20-1 [ITP]
Hi! Now after month, any news regarding this package?
On Wednesday 27 April 2016 12:53:06 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi Pali and mentors,
>
> (redirecting the question to -mentors, because I don't have a strong opinion on this)
>
>
> >Looks like we do not have exact license text as those file "were
> >generated" by brute-force methods by more people and put into public
> >domain. People names (or nick names) are already included in copyright
> >file. That is all what I know and cannot do more. If there are or there
> >are not law problems it is probably question for other people...
>
> there should be a verbatim copy of the license included in the upstream tarball
>
> look e.g. to
>
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
> License II and III sections
>
>
> so, either you have to document how the license is obtained, or how to reproduce the files
> generation.
>
> I know licenses are a waste of time for somebody (they were for me when I started
> my contributions in Debian :p )...
> but they are the best way to get your package rejected by ftpmasters!
>
> So, this point is really a showstopper for the inclusion in Debian of the tool
> (BTW if you want to ask ftpmasters about their opinion let me know their answer).
>
> I would like to avoid uploading and get a reject, but I would consider an
> upload with a ping to ftpmasters about this issue.
>
> cheers,
>
> Gianfranco
>
>
> Il Martedì 26 Aprile 2016 23:07, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> On Thursday 21 April 2016 10:16:29 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 April 2016 08:36:49 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > >There is no more info about it just as it is public domain, no
> > > >more license texts... What to write into paragraph then??
> > >
> > > everything is a license, and public domain is a license too.
> > > https://codesearch.debian.net/results/License:%20public-domain/page
> > > _0
> > >
> > > G.
> >
> > Looks like we do not have exact license text as those file "were
> > generated" by brute-force methods by more people and put into public
> > domain. People names (or nick names) are already included in
> > copyright file. That is all what I know and cannot do more. If there
> > are or there are not law problems it is probably question for other
> > people...
>
> Gianfranco, what else needs to be done? I think I done everything what I
> was able to do...
>
>
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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
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