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gem2deb: saying the Debian packaging is "same license as upstream" by default



[breaking the original thread]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 04:18:10PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> debian/copyright:
> - it is considered good practice to chose for the license of debian/*
>   files the same license as upstream to ease distribution.

Does anyone object to adjusting the dh-make-ruby template to say that
by default? (see attached patch)

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
From 7219cb08ab490074282adacfb6ec43e7b73eeb2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 18:41:00 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Default to using "Same license as upstream"

---
 lib/gem2deb/dh_make_ruby/template/debian/copyright |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/gem2deb/dh_make_ruby/template/debian/copyright b/lib/gem2deb/dh_make_ruby/template/debian/copyright
index 7091d6d..a7a6690 100644
--- a/lib/gem2deb/dh_make_ruby/template/debian/copyright
+++ b/lib/gem2deb/dh_make_ruby/template/debian/copyright
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ License: GPL-2+ (FIXME)
 Files: debian/*
 Copyright: <%= Date.today.year %> <%= maintainer['DEBFULLNAME'] %> <<%= maintainer['DEBEMAIL'] %>>
 License:
- [LICENSE TEXT]
+ The Debian packaging is licensed under the same terms as the original package.
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