Bug#180308: Debian GNU/Linux kphone package
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Hi Mika & Pekka,
I have taken over the Debian GNU/Linux packaging of kphone from Barak and have
made some preliminary packages available at http://people.debian.org/~msp.
On closer inspection of your code I see that kphone links in openssl, which in
itself isn't a problem but as you have released kphone under the GPL we need
to ensure that all legal aspects have been covered and openssl/ GPL proves an
interesting combination.
http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.cgi#LEGAL2
Prior to kphone being accepted in the main Debian GNU/Linux archive we need to
get the licence for kphone resolved so that Debian can legally redistribute
binary versions of your application.
The simplest way, and a similar approach I have taken with other packages I
maintain <http://bugs.debian.org/147430>, is for you to include the following
disclaimer with your package. (Provided of course you are happy with the
statement)
"This program is released under the GPL with the additional exemption that
compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed."
You might like to include that statement in the README file for the next
release, but in the interium if you are happy to provide that statement via
email (to 180308@bugs.debian.org, where it will be held on record) then I can
get kphone uploaded to the Debian archive immedately.
Kittos,
Mark
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Subject: PS
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:06
From: Barak Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu>
To: Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org>
Please do me a favor and contact mika.mustikkamaki@wirlab.net and let
him know that you've taken it over. (My earlier communication with
him is below.)
He also mentions the person who actually hacks on the code; might be
good to introduce yourself to him as well.
Thanks for doing kphone,
--Barak.
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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 08:30:11 +0200
From: Mika Mustikkamaki <mika.mustikkamaki@wirlab.net>
To: bap@cs.unm.edu
Subject: Re: debian package kphone.deb
In-Reply-To: <E18gVto-0002Of-00@snot.cs.unm.edu>
Hi Barak!
Your proposition is more than welcome!! We've been looking for someone
to work with the Debian packages for some time now... actually we are
also looking for RedHat rpm's but I'll leave that to someone else, then ;-)
If you could email me your deb-package too after you have it finished -
I'd be more than eager to upload it to KPhone's source distribution web
page. If you have any questions regarding KPhone itself (code-wise),
please contact Pekka Raisio (pekka.raisio@wirlab.net). He's the one who
primarily develops KPhone here.
Best regards,
Mika
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Mika Mustikkamaki
Wirlab - Research Center
E-Mail: mika.mustikkamaki@wirlab.net
Barak Pearlmutter wrote:
> Hi, I've just moved from New Mexico is Ireland and will spend hours on
> the phone each day with collaborators, so I'm getting into VoIP for
> our own needs, and will be a kphone user.
>
> I'm also a Debian developer. Would you kphone folks like me to
> package kphone and upload it to the Debian archive? I'm going to
> create a kphone.deb for our own use anyway, so it wouldn't be much
> extra trouble.
>
> (Of course, if someone else has already created such a package please
> let me know.)
>
> --BAP.
> --
> Barak A. Pearlmutter
> Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland,
> http://www-bcl.cs.unm.edu/
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