Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Robert Collins
On 23 Dec. 2017 16:54, "Paul Wise" wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > (ie: the Apache license doesn't require listing copyright holders). IANAL, but it seems pretty clear to me that this is not the case, at least for source packages (see 4.c), How do you get to en

Re: Exclicitly or "implicitly" mark architectures a packages does not build

2017-12-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, update on querying BTS for packages that can not build on a certain architecture: On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:46:53PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 07:24:28PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 08:10:19PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > May be I

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > IANAL, but it seems pretty clear to me that this is not the case, at > least for source packages (see 4.c), for binary packages we also have to > distribute any associated NOTICE files (see 4.d, but I guess we violate > this rule quite a lot), which I would guess usually conta

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > (ie: the Apache license doesn't require listing copyright holders). IANAL, but it seems pretty clear to me that this is not the case, at least for source packages (see 4.c), for binary packages we also have to distribute any associated NOTI

Bug#885030: ITP: libnitrokey -- library to communicate with Nitrokey stick devices

2017-12-22 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Kitterman * Package name: libnitrokey Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Nitrokey Team * URL : https://github.com/Nitrokey/libnitrokey * License : LGPL3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : library to communica

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thomas Goirand (2017-12-23 01:45:43) > On 12/20/2017 10:31 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Holger Levsen (2017-12-19 22:01:52) >>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 06:44:54PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > What if the author is anonymous then? Then who granted the license? >>> >>>

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/19/2017 05:33 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2017-12-19 15:17:56 +0100 (+0100), Thomas Goirand wrote: > [...] >> I wish you good luck with that. I attempted *twice* to have the >> copyright holder information attached to each upstream project on >> upstream OpenStack, and twice this was a fai

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/20/2017 12:46 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The problem with all of these discussions, however, and the reason why I > largely stopped participating in them (particularly with my Policy Editor > hat on), is that the rules for what one actually has to do in Debian to > get a package accepted are a

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/20/2017 10:31 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Holger Levsen (2017-12-19 22:01:52) >> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 06:44:54PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: What if the author is anonymous then? >>> Then who granted the license? >> >> the anonymous author. > > Ok. Then (assuming the sou

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I find demands on my time from those who > aren't frustrating. Hi, I'm nitpicking here, but that's what this whole thread is about: demands on the time of Debian maintainers and whether it's necessary for everyone listed in a Copyright lin

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Scott Kitterman writes ("Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?"): > Personally, as a member of the FTP Team (Assistant, not Master), I'm > reluctant to participate in discussions like this unless I'm highly > confident that I understand the team policy on such matters > completely enough

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 08:08:04 PM Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:46:58 -0800, Russ Allbery > > wrote: > >The problem with all of these discussions, however, and the reason why I > >largely stopped participating in them (particularly with my Policy Editor > >hat on), is that

Re: glibc-2.24-11+deb9u2 from s-p-u already in debian/dists/stretch/main/source/Sources.xz?

2017-12-22 Thread Philipp Hahn
Hello Emilio, Am 21.12.2017 um 12:34 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: > It's listed as > > Extra-Source-Only: yes > > So yes, it's normal for it to be there, as another package has Built-Using on > that glibc version, so we need to ship the source. Thanks Emilio, that was the missing link. Phil