On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Jérémy Lal <kapo...@melix.org> wrote:
> > Well, it's probably just a matter of taste. I found it easier to > > strip the embedded libraries than to cherry-pick all the scattered > > licenses and gather them up in the debian/copyright. It's also much > > easier on our ftp-masters to review less sources. > > If it was a master of taste i would do the same as you, get rid of > convenience copies. > The idea behind the links i gave above is to refrain people from repacking > on > personal taste; and distribute *original* upstream tarballs. > Of course, once there is a good reason to do repack (typically dfsg) then > you can remove > embedded convenience copies as well. But you might as well not exclude > them. > Well, there was no upstream tarball anyway, I did create one from git (git archive), so basically no-repacking has happened here. > Slightly unrelated : the version libsearpc 1.1.0+dfsg is misleading since > there is no DFSG involved in this repacking. True, but it was so convenient :). Please suggest a better name, or let's cross-fingers and let's hope our upstream friends will release 1.1.1 without bundled json-glib library (pretty please). Anyway the current status of seafile packages: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/libsearpc.git;a=summary (uploaded) http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/libzdb.git;a=summary(uploaded + asked upstream to grant OpenSSL exception) http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ccnet.git;a=summary (WIP and needs some more licensing love[*]) * - E: libccnet0: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl & E: ccnet-bin: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl Shuai, please add OpenSSL exception to the license (if you are going to keep GPL-3 and not MIT) as suggested here: http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>
