On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:17:22PM +0100, Marek Majkowski wrote: > On 07/29/2011 02:53 PM, Jan Dittberner wrote: > > I'd like to package Pika for Debian. The associated ITP (intend to > > package) bug in the Debian bug tracking system is [1]. > > Great news! > > (I CC Gavin, the maintainer) > > > The Pika web site states that Pika is dual licensed as MPLv1.1 and > > GPLv2.0 which both are acceptable free software licenses. What made > > me worry are two things: > > > > - a missing declaration of copyright holders with copyright years in > > the COPYING file > > We could copy the copyright holders from LICENSE-MPL-Pika to COPYING, > though we will end up in the same stuff in two places. > > > - the statement "All rights reserved." at the end of LICENSE-MPL-Pika > > that is normally used in proprietary license/copyright texts only > > This is taken from the MPL template.
ok, I've searched the debian-legal archives and came to the same conclusion. I think it is not necessary to change anything for the current version. I will copy the copyright holder section from the MPL text. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:30:33AM -0400, Gavin M. Roy wrote: > Assuming you're like to start with 0.9.5, I'd suggest we make the changes > to the files and release a 0.9.5r1 based off the 0.9.5 tag. > Let me know if Marek's proposed changes are satisfactory or even > necessary. I don't think adding the copyright holders to COPYING creates > an issue, however I don't see the value. > Debian has approved the MPL in its current form with that verbiage AFAIK: > http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#MozillaPublicLicense.28MPL.29 > Gavin Marek's explaination is sufficient for me. I will continue with the packaging work. One thing that would be great for the next release would be to move the changelog information from README.md to a separate changelog file that I could include as upstream changelog. Thanks for the fast responses and the clarification. Kind Regards, Jan -- Jan Dittberner - Debian Developer GPG-key: 4096R/558FB8DD 2009-05-10 B2FF 1D95 CE8F 7A22 DF4C F09B A73E 0055 558F B8DD http://ddportfolio.debian.net/ - http://people.debian.org/~jandd/
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