[Pkg-electronics-devel] Hello list I am Bhavani Shankar and about RFS of emu8051

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Wesley J. Landaker <wjl at icecavern.net>wrote:

> On Saturday, June 12, 2010 13:17:58 Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> > The respective dsc file can be found at:
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/emu8051/emu8051_1.1.0-1.dsc
>
> In the copyright file it incorrectly quotes the license grant as GPL
> version
> 2 ONLY, whereas the license grant in all of the source files is the
> standard
> GPL version 2 or later.
>
> If you want to make your packaging GPL version 2 only for some reason,
> that's up to you, but we shouldn't misrepresent the original software
> license.
>
> I think everything else in the package looks pretty good, so I'd be happy
> to
> upload it for you once this one issue is resolved.
>


Hello Wesley,

Thanks for your review and interest! I noticed it just now and I think its
better to release the debian packaging under public domain because I feel
that its compatible with _any_ license. This has the advantage/disadvantage
that upstream can change it's license
at will even if it includes your code. afaik this is how gcc works if I am
not wrong..

Waiting for your thoughts,

Regards

-- 
Bhavani Shankar.R
https://launchpad.net/~bhavi, a proud ubuntu community  member.
What matters in life is application of mind!,
It makes great sense to have some common sense..!
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