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

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Monday, June 14, 2010 10:01:24 Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> 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..

How you want to license the Debian packaging itself is up to you. Usually, 
package licensing is either made public domain or is released under the same 
license as the software. You are right that making it public domain is the 
most compatible option.

However, my initial comment wasn't about how you licensed the Debian 
packaging. The issue is that in debian/copyright, it claims that the 
original software itself (emu8051) is GPL version 2 only, and it misquotes 
the original software's license grant. The actual software is licensed GPL 
version 2 *or later*, as can be seen by looking at the license grant in the 
header of any file in the src/ directory.

So the main issue is fixing the license information about the original 
software in debian/copyright. If you also want to change the licensing of 
your packaging work, that is also great, but that part is up to you. =)

If you drop me an e-mail after you have this change made, I will try to get 
it uploaded ASAP.
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