[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#628285: RFP: xul-ext-pencil -- GUI prototyping and diagram tool

[Fabrizio Regalli]

Hey Paul,

On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 23:19 +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Good catch!  I separately had started packaging it (the ITP somehow was
> too far down on Google and I overlooked it) and hadn't noticed these
> issues.  The packaging was so simple using mozilla-devscripts, not 
> much time was wasted.

Not sure if you have already checked the package on git.
:-) http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mozext/pencil.git;a=summary
Everything is fine except for the copyright issues I've reported before.

> Concern your last comment, I have found that lots of upstream cannot be
> bothered to document all the files they copy from other sources.
> There is not a problem with that by definition, as long as it it
> compatible with the GPL-2 license of the rest of the source, documented
> in debian/copyright.
> 
> However, if I look at base64.js and the linked website, I see that the
> license is CC-BY 2.0 UK.  This is not compatible with the GPL-2!
> For io.js, the license is MPL... I guess that should be fine.
> 
> Lastly, nsDragAndDrop.js is part of Firefox it seems, should also
> be fine.
> 
> Given that the author(s) state on the project web page that they are so
> committed to keeping it completely GPL-2, it is weird that they are not
> willing to respond to your concerns.  If you think that it would help if
> someone else also asks about this, let me know, I will try.

Feel free to do it.
I Cc'ed the pkg-mozext team also, so we can be all up-to-date on future
developments about copyright

Thank you for your interest in pencil!

Cheers,
Fabrizio.

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