Hi Shayan, On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 09:02:45PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote: > Well, it looks like the software compiles successfully and builds into a > deb package.
Very good! > Now, just a slight confusion within the debian/copyright file. Below is > the current file that is incomplete. > > > Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > > Upstream-Name: mmseqs2 > > Source: https://github.com/soedinglab/MMseqs2 > > Files-Excluded: lib/gzstream > > Comment: The system-wide library (libgzstream-dev) supersedes that of the > > gzstream in lib/ > > > > Files: lib/zstd/* > > Copyright: 2016-present Yann Collet, Facebook, Inc. > > License: GPLv2 zstd is also packaged. You can strip these files and Build-Depend libzstd-dev. There is no need to specify a copyright paragraph for removed files. > > Files: debian/* > > Copyright: 2019 Shayan Doust <[email protected]> > > License: GPLv3 > > The issue I have is that, for instance, the library "cacode" falls under > public domain. What would be written on the license file, if anything? Here is an example: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/ncbi-tools6/blob/master/debian/copyright > Some of the years and contact information are missing on the copyright > lines, as I don't have an idea as to when the license was instantiated / > library was written and as to what contact email the author has. Would > that be an issue in this state? To be honest: I "invent" something a year that sounds probable. IMHO this is some appropriate procedure to avoid serious software archeology. > Also, looking at the headers of "alp", it seems to be licensed as > "United States Government Work". As this doesn't seem to reflect a > distinctive license, what is the approach for this? I'd take the "PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTICE" as a good reason to declare it as public domain. Add the paragraph as Comment. > Last thing, the "Files: data/*, examples/*, quinci/*, src/*, util/*, > *.yml, *.md, *.txt, Dockerfile" line. I wasn't sure as to leave it as a > wildcard "*" or use this means as I do not know what the licensing > standpoint of something like this with multiple licenses due to > libraries is. The "Files: *" on top catches all files. Than you list exceptions. If you have no better clue for data/* etc. it can be assumed that it is covered by "Files: *". Now you are facing the not so fun since non-technical part of Debian packaging. ;-) Kind regards and thanks for your work on this Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
