Bug#718651: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#718651: Built hostapd/wpasupplicant 2.1 (patch)
Control: tags -1 - patch Hi On Saturday 31 May 2014, Gerald Turner wrote: [...] I paid particular attention to merging upstream's defconfgs and debian/config/* files, activating several options: [...] Thank you for your efforts, but these changes are the straight-forward and easy part. What you've missed in your patch, is the actual difficulty (well, not 'difficult', but extremely time-consuming and tiresome) involved, updating debian/copyright... Upstream relicensed from dual-licensed GPL2 || BSD to 3-clause BSD exclusively[1], due to significant files movements (wpa_supplicant learning more tricks that were usually reserved to hostapd) and quite a few new features from new authors (like WiFi Direct/ p2p) it is not done with a mere s/BSD\ or\ GPL-2/BSD/. Hope to see 2.1 in jessie! No, but the upcoming 2.2, which is currently in its final stages before getting released upstream. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] I have already confirmed that there aren't any hidden licensing problems, but reflecting that in a DEP-5 compliant debian/copyright is everything but funny for any piece of non-trivial amount of code with various authors. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#718651: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#718651: Built hostapd/wpasupplicant 2.1 (patch)
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann s@gmx.de writes: On Saturday 31 May 2014, Gerald Turner wrote: [...] I paid particular attention to merging upstream's defconfgs and debian/config/* files, activating several options: [...] Thank you for your efforts, but these changes are the straight-forward and easy part. What you've missed in your patch, is the actual difficulty (well, not 'difficult', but extremely time-consuming and tiresome) involved, updating debian/copyright... Upstream relicensed from dual-licensed GPL2 || BSD to 3-clause BSD exclusively[1], due to significant files movements (wpa_supplicant learning more tricks that were usually reserved to hostapd) and quite a few new features from new authors (like WiFi Direct/ p2p) it is not done with a mere s/BSD\ or\ GPL-2/BSD/. Yikes! Last week I had opened that file (first step: where's upstream?) and was horrified by all the attributions in individual files. I suppose this is made worse by upstream having two git repositories (manual work to track file movements). Would you like me to spend some time reconstructing a DEP-5 copyright file for 2.1, or would that also be wasted effort? -- Gerald Turner gtur...@unzane.comEncrypted mail preferred! OpenPGP: 4096R / CA89 B27A 30FA 66C5 1B80 3858 EC94 2276 FDB8 716D pgpkGm6PMNNOk.pgp Description: PGP signature
