Progress report

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 21:33 +0200, Martin Lohmeier wrote:
> > Sven Mueller wrote:
> > > Well the only true reason I see for patching is to provide the patch to
> > > upstream for later inclusion. A second reason (of much less importance
> > > IMHO) would be that we would notice the inclusion of those manpages in a
> > > new upstream release by a build failure (patch tries to create existing
> > > files) instead of having to look for those manpages manually.
> > 
> > I agree to Sven's opinion and vote for inclusion of this patch.
> 
> I'm convinced, and the patch is now included.
> 
> What do you think about copyrights? Dima Barsky wrote those man pages
> when he packaged cyrus-sasl2, and I'm not sure exactly what license they
> are under. I have emailed Dima and asked for his opinion, but I'd
> welcome input on this here as well. I'll let you all know of any reply
> from Dima.

The standard practive in Debian (and I doubt Dima would go against this) is
to license manpages in exactly the same license the code it applies to is,
so as to submit it upstream.

And CMU is very nice about taking patches, just send them to their bugzilla.
If it is uncontroversial, it gets added easily.  Of course, we need to hear
from Dima first.

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  Henrique Holschuh