On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 10:56:36AM -0500, bd_ wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Ryan Niebur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Owner: Ryan Niebur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name : thin > > Version : 1.0.0 > > Upstream Author : Marc-Andre Cournoyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/ > > * License : (not sure atm) > > Programming Lang: Ruby > > Description : fast and very simple Ruby web server > > > > Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby > > libraries in web history: > > * the Mongrel parser, the root of Mongrel's speed and security > > * Event Machine, a network I/O library with extremely high > > scalability, performance and stability > > * Rack, a minimal interface between webservers and Ruby frameworks > > . > > Which makes it, with all humility, the most secure, stable, fast and > > extensible Ruby web server bundled in an easy to use package for your own > > pleasure. > > > > I'm not entirely sure what the license is, so I'm going to email the > > upstream author. > > The COPYING file at upstream's version control > (http://github.com/macournoyer/thin.git/COPYING) has a fairly standard > simple permissive license, which should be no problem for debian main.
but at the same time the README says it's the ruby license, which is GPL and a custom license. And (parts of) it can't be anything that's not GPL, because parts of it are derived from mongrel (Zed's copyrights are even still there in places), which is GPL. Of course, I don't know my legal stuff, so... -- _________________________ Ryan Niebur [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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