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

[Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com>]

Since a large majority of ruby libraries use Expat (MIT/X11) as their
license, can we add Expat as the template instead of GPL?

2013/5/25 Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 05:16:13PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 06:44:06PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
>> > [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)
>>
>> Maybe something more like the attached patch? I would use a standalone
>> paragraph, avoiding to repeat the text of the license. The Comment:
>> field serves as an indication and could be removed, if wished by the
>> maintainer. What do you think?
>
> Cool. I'll apply your patch instead of mine. :-)
>
> --
> Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>



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