first package: pd-wiimote

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:38:56AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>Packagingwise, I think it is fine, but I'm umcomfortable with the two 
>patches. First, please use the patch metadata as described in 
>http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/.

Oh, only saw this _after_ sending off same suggestion myself.  Sorry for 
the noice :-)


>But as for the actual patches, I'm rather uncomfortable with
>them. The add-license patch adds the complete text of the GPL. I'm not
>sure how the ftpteam thinks about it, but to me it feels very
>strange. Is upstream aware of the problem, can't they just reissue the
>tarball with the complete license text? Moreover, quoting the part "How
>to Apply These Term to Your New Programs" is usually also helpful.
>
>I'd be more comfortable if the GPL text was just included in debian/,
>read, as non-patch, but still, I really think this file should be part
>of the orig.tar.gz. So another approach would be to repackage the
>tarball to just include the COPYING file. While we are at it, we could
>also use the new Makefile and get rid of the other patch.

I really don't get the logic of _adding_ a license at all.

I know that GPL boilerplate mentions that you are supposed to receive a 
COPYING file together with source, but I do not see it being _mandatory_ 
so if upstream fails to do it I suppose we are allowed to redistribute 
verbatim - i.e. also lacking same file.

If it is not for licensing reasons but due to being meeded by the code 
at runtime, then I suggest copying/symlinking the file below 
/usr/share/common-licenses instead.


  - Jonas

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