bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
Hi, I am working on packaging a Java application called BT747 [0]. For now, I have some doubts (I think I'll have more in the future ;-)): * Licenses: this package has quite a lot of licenses, one of the licenses is GPL (without the version). Is it a problem? The exact header is: /** *

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
Yep, package any embedded code copies separately. For modified code copies, try to get the changes into their proper upstream or the Debian package if it exists. Then depend on that version. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mònica * Licenses: this package has quite a lot of licenses, one of the licenses is GPL (without the version). Is it a problem? The exact header is: This is no problem. GPL states (verbatim quote from GPL-2, still present in GPL-3): If the

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
El dg 15 de 05 de 2011 a les 19:08 +0800, en/na Paul Wise va escriure: Yep, package any embedded code copies separately. For modified code copies, try to get the changes into their proper upstream or the Debian package if it exists. Ok, I'll try it, altough this library doesn't exist in

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
El dg 15 de 05 de 2011 a les 13:10 +0200, en/na Arno Töll va escriure: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mònica * Licenses: this package has quite a lot of licenses, one of the licenses is GPL (without the version). Is it a problem? The exact header is: This is no

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello Monica, interesting that you're now working on bt747: I'm also using this program to download my GPS tracks and flag my photos, wanted as well to package it, and basically silently gave up as I looked into it :-P Anyway I'm happy that someone has more courage and/or time to do it! On

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mònica, On 15.05.2011 13:40, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote: So, thinking in DEP5: If I choose GPL-3.0+, what should I write in the description of the license? (Suppose I have the GPL-3.0+ already detailed): The GPL paragraph I cited does not

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 May 2011 14:48:07 Eric Lavarde wrote: Hello Monica, Hi, interesting that you're now working on bt747: I'm also using this program to download my GPS tracks and flag my photos, wanted as well to package it, and basically silently gave up as I looked into it :-P I'd actually

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
Hi again, El dg 15 de 05 de 2011 a les 15:49 +0300, en/na George Danchev va escriure: On Sunday 15 May 2011 14:48:07 Eric Lavarde wrote: Hello Monica, Hi, interesting that you're now working on bt747: I'm also using this program to download my GPS tracks and flag my photos, wanted as

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mònica Ramírez Arceda mon...@probeta.net writes: Perfect! So, thinking in DEP5: If I choose GPL-3.0+, what should I write in the description of the license? (Suppose I have the GPL-3.0+ already detailed): I would record the license as GPL-1+. That's really what that declaration means

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 May 2011 21:01:44 Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote: Hi, To be honest, I had the same problem as you with Freeplane and JOrtho, and I decided to keep JOrtho as part of the freeplane package, under the binary name libjortho-freeplane-java. The reasons were: - JOrtho was not