Hey Paul, On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 23:19 +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > Hey, > > Good catch! I separately had started packaging it (the ITP somehow was > too far down on Google and I overlooked it) and hadn't noticed these > issues. The packaging was so simple using mozilla-devscripts, not > much time was wasted. Not sure if you have already checked the package on git. :-) http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mozext/pencil.git;a=summary Everything is fine except for the copyright issues I've reported before. > Concern your last comment, I have found that lots of upstream cannot be > bothered to document all the files they copy from other sources. > There is not a problem with that by definition, as long as it it > compatible with the GPL-2 license of the rest of the source, documented > in debian/copyright. > > However, if I look at base64.js and the linked website, I see that the > license is CC-BY 2.0 UK. This is not compatible with the GPL-2! > For io.js, the license is MPL... I guess that should be fine. > > Lastly, nsDragAndDrop.js is part of Firefox it seems, should also > be fine. > > Given that the author(s) state on the project web page that they are so > committed to keeping it completely GPL-2, it is weird that they are not > willing to respond to your concerns. If you think that it would help if > someone else also asks about this, let me know, I will try. Feel free to do it. I Cc'ed the pkg-mozext team also, so we can be all up-to-date on future developments about copyright Thank you for your interest in pencil! Cheers, Fabrizio.
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