Bug#540701: Questions and patches: new official Debian package for wbar
Hi Thanks for taking the time on wbar, please read inline.
- Rodolfo
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Markus Koschany <apo@gambaru.de> wrote:
> Dear Rodolfo, dear Yadickson,
>
> my name is Markus Koschany and i'm working on a new official Debian
> package for wbar. While i prepared the package i discovered some license
> issues thus i am contacting you in the hope that you can help resolving
> them.
>
> Please keep the bug reports cc'ed and the information public because i
> think this would help other distributions, too. I've also attached a few
> patches which fix minor spelling errors and typos.
Thanks for the time, I'm glad there's interest on wbar, glad to help were I can.
>
> 1. Unoffical Debian packages
>
> First of all thanks for supporting Debian. Unfortunately some users
> confused your unoffical package with the offical but alas outdated
> package in Debian and filed bug reports against them. See [1] and [2]
> Please consider removing the unoffical packages from the project
> homepage as soon as the official version gets updated.
I've removed the unofficial packages from wbar's repo-page since they
added more confusion than what they solved I guess we can wait for the
official packages to be in place.
>
>
> 2. GPL
>
> The old Debian package states the source code is licensed under GPL-2. I
> can find the same statement on your offical project homepage. [3]
> Your source tarball respectively the svn repo contains a COPYRIGHT file
> which says the code is licensed under GPL-3.
>
> So my question is: Which one is it?
Definitely GPLv2. I haven't had the chance to go over the differences
but v2 was the original license and should still be so.
>
>
> 3. Icons
>
> In the past we had to remove non-free icons and a font file. Obviously
> you don't use the iconpack folder anymore. Would it be possible to
> remove it completly from the svn repo?
Done us they're of no use anymore.
> I would like to use the new icons in /pixmaps but i can't find any
> information about where they came from. I recognize the Anjuta logo
> which is licensed under GPL-2 but the licenses for the other icons
> remain vague. Could you clarify this situation?
Some of these icons used to be in my private svn repo since they were
freely available online and I used them for testing purposes. I've
removed most of them now and added a make-conf.sh script that should
help generate a proper wbar.cfg config file scanning available pixmaps
in the system. Take into consideration that this script just searches
/usr/local and is not very configurable except some variables at the
top of the script.
>
> 4. Toolchain
>
> You are using a very helpful autogen.sh file to create the build
> toolchain. Would it be possible to include it in the next source tarball
> release? I personally prefer rebuilding the toolchain myself and i think
> this would also make it easier to spot changes in the source files. It
> also reduces the size of the source tarball.
The latest and greatest 2.3.1 version has only the source code in the
repo including autogen.sh.
>
> 5. Patches
>
> I've attached a few patches which correct, in my opinion, spelling
> errors and typos in wbar. I'm not a native speaker myself but i had the
> feeling "inverting icons growth" sounds better than "investing icons
> growth". If you disagree with my changes, please let me know. If i made
> a mistake myself i will revert the changes of course. I've also
> increased the default icon size to 64. It makes wbar more visible for
> starters and easier to spot.
Thanks for taking the time to go over the project and fix these typos,
spelling errors, and author :-)
> Thanks for reading this far. I'm looking forward to your answers.
My pleasure, please checkout:
http://code.google.com/p/wbar/source/detail?r=52
http://code.google.com/p/wbar/source/detail?r=53
http://code.google.com/p/wbar/source/detail?r=54
http://code.google.com/p/wbar/source/detail?r=55
http://code.google.com/p/wbar/source/detail?r=56
Cheers,
>
> Best regards
>
> Markus Koschany
>
>
>
> 1. http://bugs.debian.org/637354
> 2. http://bugs.debian.org/630876
> 3. http://code.google.com/p/wbar/
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