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Re: Use MIT license in gem2deb copyright template



On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 01:44:37PM +0530, Balasankar C wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 28 June 2017 06:43 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:40:14PM +0530, Balasankar C wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Currently, the template copyright file that is generated by gem2deb uses
> > > GPL-2.0+ as a placeholder license. Since a majority of the Ruby gems are
> > > under MIT/Expat license, can we use that instead? I had opened a bug[0] long
> > > back about it, but had forgotten about that. I understand using a better
> > > tool to identify the license and fill the copyright file using that info is
> > > the optimal solution. But this seems like a quick and harmless fix. If no
> > > one objects, I intend to make this change in the gem2deb repo by this
> > > weekend.
> > 
> > Yeah, please go ahead.
> > 
> 
> I have updated the template file and pushed the changes to alioth. I tried
> building the package and it succeeded (and all tests passed). But on
> grepping for "GPL-2 (FIXME)", I saw some matches inside the test folder that
> made me wonder if something more is to be done. Can anyone please confirm?

Well, those are sample packages used in tests, that were generated in
the past ... I don't think there is much of a point in changing them as
well.

BTW I uploaded gem2deb yesterday, including this change of yours.

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