On 03/19/2013 10:17 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
Rick Jones <[email protected]> writes:
Ah yes, licensing - I guess netperf not being GPL would be an issue
there because the debian packaging scripts are themselves GPL?
Yeah, I think they are by default. However, I looked at the 'copyright'
file in the debian/ directory (which contains the packaging script), and
couldn't find any reference to the license of the packaging files
themselves; it only contained what appeared to be the list of copyrights
From netperf itself, with the name of the packager added on top.
I suppose the safe thing to do would be to either (a) fire off an email
to the packager and ask if he has any objections to his packaging being
distributed as part of the netperf source, or (b) re-create the
packaging script from scratch. As for (b), Debian does provide a set of
scripts to scaffold the packaging scripts, so it might not be too hard
to do. However, given that I am very much a Debian packaging novice,
asking for permission to incorporate the existing packaging scripts
might be worthwhile, at least as a first attempt.
I did send an email to the person I thought was the Debian mantainer -
didn't get a response from him though. Probably worth a second shot.
What, btw, is the purpose of incorporating the packaging scripts? Do you
want to provide ready-made .debs for download, or do you simply want to
make it easier for others to create packages? And which distribution(s)
are you planning to target?
The main reason is to make it easier for others to create packages,
where others includes myself.
rick
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