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Package: dh-make
Version: 0.62+nmu1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
please add wtfpl2-support to dh-make. wtfpl2 is a valid free license
according to the fsf. wtfpl2 fits perfect for small packages, where
no copyleft is needed or wished.
Patch is attached.
Greetz Alf Gaida
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-0.towo-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dh-make depends on:
ii debhelper 9.20130630
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.1
ii make 3.81-8.2
ii perl 5.14.2-21
dh-make recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dh-make suggests:
ii build-essential 11.6
-- no debconf information
-- debsums errors found:
sh: 1: /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert: not found
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On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 12:38:12PM +0200, Alf Gaida wrote:
> please add wtfpl2-support to dh-make. wtfpl2 is a valid free license
> according to the fsf. wtfpl2 fits perfect for small packages, where
> no copyleft is needed or wished.
There are actually problems with the wtfpl and its sufficiently unclear
that this can cause problems for some people. I had also considered
changing this to either CC0[1] or Fairlicense[2] but again they have
limitations.
Also all three are not widely used and dh_make only takes the more
popular licenses.They could be argument that, say, MPL should be added
first.
What I will look into is adding a custom option to the license choice
and letting people choose the template file they want to load in.
You could then do something like:
dh_make [other flags] -c custom --copyright ~/mylicense.txt
- Craig
[1] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
[2] http://fairlicense.org/
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