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Bug#258973: marked as done (tetex-bin: license)

Your message dated Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:43:37 +0100
with message-id <874on88a6e.fsf@riesling.zuerich.kuesterei.ch>
and subject line Re: Bug#258973: tetex-bin: license
has caused the Debian Bug report #258973,
regarding tetex-bin: license
to be marked as done.

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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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Version: 2007

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 12.07.04 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> 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.
>> 
> This is a very general bug, which hits nearly *every* Debian package.

I don't think so - at least the developers' reference was clear about
this IIRC.  

> Are you still willing to work on this?  

I would be if the bug was still present. However, tetex-bin doesn't
exist any more, and 

$ head -5 /usr/share/doc/texlive/copyright 
Copyright information for the texlive bundle

Table of contents:

1. Copyright and License of the debian-specific adaptions

Regards, Frank


-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg

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