Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts

2015-03-31 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 02:28:40PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ben Finney writes (Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts): For free software, this forum normally recommends that the Debian packaging copyright holders should choose to grant the same license to the Debian packaging files

Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts

2015-03-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Tagliamonte writes (Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts): On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 02:28:40PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ben Finney writes (Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts): For free software, this forum normally recommends that the Debian packaging copyright holders

Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts

2015-03-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Ben Finney writes (Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts): For free software, this forum normally recommends that the Debian packaging copyright holders should choose to grant the same license to the Debian packaging files as the general license for the upstream work. I disagree both

Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts

2015-03-30 Thread Ben Finney
Micheal Waltz mwa...@qualcomm.com writes: Is there a license that maintainer scripts for packages fall under? If the copyright holder in those files grants one, yes. The copyright holders for the maintainer scripts (and all the other Debian packaging files) are often the package maintainers.

Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts

2015-03-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:56:57AM -0700, Micheal Waltz wrote: Is there a license that maintainer scripts for packages fall under? I'm wondering about anything under /debian for a package, specifically postinst, postrm, etc type scripts. Check the package copyright file. It should be noted in