On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Wesley J. Landaker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wjl@icecavern.net">wjl@icecavern.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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How you want to license the Debian packaging itself is up to you. Usually,<br></div>
package licensing is either made public domain or is released under the same<br>
license as the software. You are right that making it public domain is the<br>
most compatible option.<br>
<br>
However, my initial comment wasn't about how you licensed the Debian<br>
packaging. The issue is that in debian/copyright, it claims that the<br>
original software itself (emu8051) is GPL version 2 only, and it misquotes<br>
the original software's license grant. The actual software is licensed GPL<br>
version 2 *or later*, as can be seen by looking at the license grant in the<br>
header of any file in the src/ directory.<br>
<br>
So the main issue is fixing the license information about the original<br>
software in debian/copyright. If you also want to change the licensing of<br>
your packaging work, that is also great, but that part is up to you. =)<br>
<br>
If you drop me an e-mail after you have this change made, I will try to get<br>
it uploaded ASAP.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Hello Wesley again!<br><br>I m extremely sorry on my part to have misinterpreted you I ve changed the license to GPL-2 or later and released my packaging under public domain<br><br>The respective dsc file of the updated package can be found at:<br>
<a href="http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/emu8051/emu8051_1.1.0-1.dsc" target="_blank">http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/emu8051/emu8051_1.1.0-1.dsc</a><br>
<br clear="all">Regards<br>-- <br>Bhavani Shankar.R<br><a href="https://launchpad.net/~bhavi">https://launchpad.net/~bhavi</a>, a proud ubuntu community member.<br>What matters in life is application of mind!,<br>It makes great sense to have some common sense..!<br>
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