Getting Cinelerra to go in the official repositories of Debian *IS NOT* just about adding a few lines header to each sources file and deciding to be the maintainer.
Some thoughs: - Can we add headers in file we didn't developped ourselves? Only one person knows for sure where the code comes from, and that guy is Adam. I talked about those headers with a Debian packager some hours ago during an important Linux meeting in Paris. It seems those headers aren't really necessary. You can get an application to be accepted without those headers, even if it is strongly advised. - Cinelerra depends of packages which are in the officials reps, but those packages are sometimes modified, to get ride of patented stuff. Would Cinelerra work with such packages? - Debian RFP (request to package) and ITP (intend to package) have already been made in the past. Look at #78209 (RFP), #156614 (RFP), #239570 (RFP) and #331072 (ITP). - Legal advice can be obtain on the Debian-legal mailing-list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal - Each Debian package must be accompanied by a "copyright" file, installed in /usr/share/doc/<application_name>. Each contributor should be given proper credit and copyright notice in that file. - The way copyrights are tracked down in Cinelerra-CV could be improved. Fortunately, thanks to the revision system we used, we are able to give contributors proper credits in the future if this is needed. - The licence problem has been debated *OVER AND OVER* on this mailing-list and on the IRC (1 time per month approximately). Each time, the same questions and suggestions are made. I suggest creating a new page in the wiki about the licence issue, where all the information would be centralized. Nicolas Maufrais. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ BOYCOTT SUSE & NOVELL (C)(TM)(R) MICRO$OFT ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ I DO LIKE AND SUPPORT GPL VERSION 3 ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
