request for sponsorship for pd-hid

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 22:15, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:30 +0000, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:45, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:41 -0300, "Felipe Sateler" <fsateler at debian.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 21:55, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 19:08, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
>> >> >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:37, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:37 -0800, "Hans-Christoph Steiner"
>> >> >>> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> On Dec 24, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 21:13, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>> >> >>>> > <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> >> >>>> >>
>> >> >>>> >> Just ITPed, packaged and uploaded pd-hid to git.debian.org.  It is an
>> >> >>>> >> object for Pure Data that allows you to use USB HID devices in Pd.
>> >> >>>> >> The
>> >> >>>> >> build system is similar in structure to pd-plugin and pd-freeverb,
>> >> >>>> >> plus
>> >> >>>> >> it includes the kFreeBSD and Hurd updates, so it should build on all
>> >> >>>> >> platforms.  It depends on pd-mapping and recommends pd-pddp, which
>> >> >>>> >> are
>> >> >>>> >> both in NEW.
>> >> >>>> >>
>> >> >>>> >> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/pd-hid.git;a=summary
>> >> >>>> >
>> >> >>>> > There is some code that is not yours, please add Jan Truetzschler
>> >> >>>> > Falkenstein to the debian/copyright file (ftpmaster may reject the
>> >> >>>> > package for this missing information).
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> Thanks for spotting that, I pushed the fix.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Ping.  Anyone willing to sponsor this one?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Sorry, I lost track of this. I will try to get to this (and your other
>> >> >> packages) during the weekend.
>> >> >
>> >> > I clearly didn't do this when promised, and this week I couldn't
>> >> > either. I've been extremely busy. I'm sorry about that. If someone
>> >> > else can look into these packages, please upload them, since I'm not
>> >> > likely to get any debian time anytime soon.
>> >> >
>> >> > I will, if nobody else gets to these packages, still review them as
>> >> > time permits.
>> >
>> > It seems that this package never got uploaded.   It needs its git-dch
>> > done and the changelog finalized and then uploaded.  I can finalize the
>> > changelog if that makes it easier.  It seems some people want to do it
>> > themselves when uploading.
>>
>> I believe this package needs to be fixed for puredata >= 0.43
>
> As far as I can tell it has already.  For me, it builds on
> Debian/testing using puredata-dev and no puredata, and squeeze using
> puredata 0.42.6.

Indeed, it seems to work.

I have a licensing question though. The package is distributed as
GPLv3+. However, Supercollider (where some code was borrowed) is
GPLv2+. I think debian/copyright should document that fact. Code from
2004 cannot possibly be under GPLv3+ unless relicensed.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler