[Pkg-electronics-devel] DFSG NEW review of 'arduino-cli' package

[Matthias Geiger]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:35, Andrew McMillan <andrew at mcmillan.net.nz> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The licensing here looks... complicated.  Is that fair?
>
>https://dfsg-new-queue.debian.org/reviews/arduino-cli
>
>I've started to go through these things, I've found a few Authors that
>perhaps were missed?  There's a whole 3M hidden folder called
>".licenses" which suggests theres's already been a whole lot of due
>diligence about this in the past.
>
>I see a few lines where licenserecon finds some differences in the
>licenses in the code to what is stated in debian/copyright.
>
>However I suspect you've already gone through all this in some
>detail...
>
>Has the review found anything you missed, or do you have more
>background for me that I should know before signing off on this?

Hi Andrew,

thanks for reaching out. I've put Nicholas in CC since they wrote the 
majority of d/copyright. I reviewed it and sponsored it, so it LGTM.
I'll let them comment further, since I only wrote the first rough draft.

best,

werdahias
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