Bug#258973: tetex-bin: license
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-15
Severity: important
For the parts of our tetex-bin package that are not present in the
upstream sources, but have been added as Debian-specific code, there
is no information about the copyright (i.e which Debian developer/user
contributed which parts?) and license in debian/copyright.
This is no good.
We should:
1. Identify all persons that have contributed significant parts of the
Debian-specific adaptations, put their names in the individual
files, and create corresponding Copyright entries in
debian/copyright.
2. Decide on a license under which we want to put the Debian-specific
code. I suggest to use the GPL, because it is also the license of
the teTeX distribution itself.
3. Once we've agreed on the license, everybody who know that he has
contributed code, or plans to do this in the future, should send a
signed mail to this bug that he puts his contribution under the
license.
4. For people that do not react, we will bug them a little, but if
they turn out to be unreachable (or unwilling), we should take out
the code and implement it newly.
Regards, Frank
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0-bunk-2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux alhambra 2.4.25 #1 Mit Feb 18 16:41:07 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.34 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.5.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-19 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-15 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaperg 1.1.8 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library
ii libt1-5 5.0.0-4 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww0 5.4.0-9 The W3C WWW library
ii libxaw7 4.2.1-3.bunk.10 X Athena widget set library
ii mime-support 3.18-1.3 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.6.1-8.7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.0.9-4.bunk The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 2.0.2-9 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 1.06 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 4.2.1-3.bunk.10 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-1.0woody0 compression library - runtime
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