[Pkg-gridengine-devel] License for the debian packaging code

[Dave Love]

Afif Elghraoui <afif at ghraoui.name> writes:

> Hello,
> I've just about finished the copyright file,

I'm afraid it's clearly incomplete, as it must be.  You can get an idea
from AUTHORS and Changelog.  A significant amount, like Shannon
Davidson's contributions, actually predates the free release and version
control.

> but I don't know what
> license to use for the actual packaging (debian/*). There is no
> indication in any file header anywhere nor in the old copyright.
>
> This would be for the work done by Mark Hymers, Dave Love, and whoever
> else worked on the package.

What I did can have any appropriate free licence.  I didn't add one as
there wasn't anything originally.  (I don't understand how this is a
problem if it wasn't originally; I can't remember whether I've seen any
policy on it, but Fedora has a default of MIT, and I've had my notices
on spec files questioned.)

> I'd appreciate an answer soon. I will also need sponsorship to upload
> the package not long after that.
>
> And again...actually letting me into the team on Alioth would be nice.
>
> regards
> Afif

I've now removed the non-free qidl stuff.  Thanks -- I think I assumed
the original distribution was free, and I'm not sure how it was in
FreeBSD otherwise.

I don't understand some of the removals.  What's wrong with ldAIX?  If
ps/pdf isn't allowed, why isn't it all removed?  Is there guidance
somewhere on files built by an IDE (QMonNT)?

The copyright situation seems particularly silly if you have to go to
that trouble for tcsh in gridengine but not for the actual tcsh
package...