Re: Copyright of debian/*

2021-01-04 Thread Christoph Biedl
John Scott wrote... > On Saturday, January 2, 2021 10:30:56 AM EST Matthew Vernon wrote: > > I have noticed some packages using the newer machine-readable copyright > > format, but not specifying any copyright for debian/* > That's not good practice. You should ask the package maintainer to inclu

Re: Fixing dvi2dvi

2016-12-28 Thread Christoph Biedl
Christoph Biedl wrote... > Ian Jackson wrote... > > > Is upstream contactable ? Maybe they could be persuaded to drop the > > restriction. Does anyone know if they have been asked ? > > Well, I gave it a try. The address is pretty old but at least there's > s

Re: Fixing dvi2dvi

2016-12-20 Thread Christoph Biedl
Ian Jackson wrote... > Is upstream contactable ? Maybe they could be persuaded to drop the > restriction. Does anyone know if they have been asked ? Well, I gave it a try. The address is pretty old but at least there's still a mail server for it, and a message was not rejected instantly. C

Fixing dvi2dvi

2016-12-18 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hi there, I'd like to fix dvi2dvi which (besides a no-brainer) has a problem | #841056 dvi2dvi: license requires package rename >3. The package name of the modified software must not be ``dvi2dvi'' or >``dvi2dvi-'' where is the version number. Now I could take some advice what in Debian woul

Disclaimers in submitted patches

2015-02-15 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hello, every now and then I receive submissions (i.e. patches) by e-mail for packages I maintain. Sometimes a disclaimer¹ is part of that message, a text that denies me from doing certain things with that e-mail - like copying or disclosing the message. In my opinion using such a patch for an upl

MIT license confusion

2014-05-19 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hello, probably old stuff, but when it comes to licensing terms I prefer to play safe ... In a source package I found a license but as often the name of the license is missing. The licensecheck didn't help either but a search in the net suggests it's an MIT license since the text is the one that

Re: Unteralterbach visual novel

2014-03-10 Thread Christoph Biedl
Paul Tagliamonte wrote... > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 08:31:24PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > Thibaut Paumard wrote... > > > > > IANAL, but this discussion has got me wondering were we should draw the > > > line. Summary: in my opinion, if you intend on upload

Re: Unteralterbach visual novel

2014-03-10 Thread Christoph Biedl
Thibaut Paumard wrote... > IANAL, but this discussion has got me wondering were we should draw the > line. Summary: in my opinion, if you intend on uploading a package which > as fair chances of being classified as pornography *somewhere*, please > don't. Argumentation follows (Nils, obviously I'm

DEP-5, asking for clarificatons

2012-03-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
tl;dr - I'd really like to use the DEP-5 keywords but looking closer I get the feeling I should always use my own ones. Something that is clearly not in the intention of DEP-5. Hello, while converting debian/copyright of a Debian package into DEP-5, a lot of questions arose. Can you please give s