2007/2/1, Nicolas Maufrais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
we know. this is actually the extra work we are doing to acomplish
that goal. if we though was that easy we weren't here asking for help.
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.
yes (again). i sended a mail to HW and they confirmed that all is GPLd.
- 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?
yes, i've compiled fine without any extra repos/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).
well, our first intention is to package for ubuntu. we hope this will
revitalize that ITP that was zombie for years. lot of people have
packaged cinelerra but no one taked the enough time/job for resolving
the problems of including it on the repos.
- 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.
ok
- 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.
the root problem is over. cinelerra IS GPL as the author says. we can
find little problems with some modifications that can be resolved with
help from developers (credits to right people, external project code,
etc).
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