Re: backporting licence information for koffice hyphenation
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:25:31AM +0100, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote: Now the question is how backporting this information to make it available on debian packages. [0] and [1] paths are packaged in koffice-libs. I could think of this solutions: 1- Tell upstream to commit that information on the relevant branch[0]. (see below). 2- Add a section on the debian copyright file (koffice-libs) 3- Provide copyright statements as they are in /usr/share/doc/koffice-libs/ If you have a written statement by upstream about the license (e.g. as email), it should be enough to include that in debian/copyright. It is not necessary (though of course preferable) that this information is also available in the orig.tar.gz. (This question comes up quite regulary (i.e. at least once a year) on this list AFAIR, so an archive search might provide further insight) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backporting licence information for koffice hyphenation
Hello: There is a bug filed about this issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410094 Thing is that koffice uses hyphenation dictionaries, and the licence/copyright is stated neither the source tarball nor svn repository[0]. After a conversation with upstream developers, they included that information on their trunk [1]. Now the question is how backporting this information to make it available on debian packages. [0] and [1] paths are packaged in koffice-libs. I could think of this solutions: 1- Tell upstream to commit that information on the relevant branch[0]. (see below). 2- Add a section on the debian copyright file (koffice-libs) 3- Provide copyright statements as they are in /usr/share/doc/koffice-libs/ Note about 1. Koffice 1.6 brach is almost dead. Upstream is very reluctant to modify that branch. Indeed, 1.6.4 release was expected, but now is not likely to be actually released. I'd like some advice as how to provide this information. Thanks a lot. [0] svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/koffice/1.6/koffice/lib/kotext/kohyphen/hyphdicts [1] svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/koffice/libs/kotext/kohyphen/hyphdicts -- Raúl Sánchez Siles -Proud Debian user- Linux registered user #416098 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
