-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gediminas Paulauskas wrote: > Hello Zope Developers, > > I am packaging many Zope libraries for Ubuntu. But my packages were > rejected by archive admin because the source tarballs do not satisfy > the inclusion requirements. > >>From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic#Copyright : > > * The upstream tarball must contain verbatim copies of all licenses > that are used by the files in the tarball. References to URLs or paths > to system files (such as /usr/share/common-licenses/) are not > sufficient. The license(s) must accompany the source code. > > Every file under the ZPL has a sentence "A copy of the ZPL should > accompany this distribution." in it's header. But that's not the case. > Very few packages ship a ZopePublicLicense.txt in their source. > > Reading the ZPL, its first condition is: > > 1. Redistributions in source code must retain the > accompanying copyright notice, this list of conditions, > and the following disclaimer. > > Since this condition is not met, such packages cannot be legally distributed. > > Who will add a copy of the license to each package in Zope SVN? When?
$ wget \ http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/Z/Zope2/Zope2-2.12.3.tar.gz $ tar tzf Zope2-2.12.3.tar.gz | grep -i license Zope2-2.12.3/src/ZServer/medusa/dist/license.html Zope2-2.12.3/ZopePublicLicense.txt Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktwfusACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4zpwCgizLBgdac2VEmFHcC61UZ7ySd FrIAoMHE/opviKYUG83eZGvkIeyYULQ4 =dSOn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )