request for sponsorship for pd-hid

[Felipe Sateler]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 14:43, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
> On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> The GPLv2+ license has that built into it.  In the context of this project,
> the code from SuperCollider is so intermingled, there is no easily
> recognizable chunk that could be labeled GPLv2+.  Since the project is
> GPLv3+, I think it would be misleading to try to say that a file is
> available under GPLv2+.  If people want the GPLv2+ file, they should go to
> the original SuperCollider source.
>
> Here's the text from the GPL:
>
> "Each version is given a distinguishing version number.  If the Program
> specifies that a certain numbered version of the GNU General Public License
> "or any later version" applies to it, you have the option of following the
> terms and conditions either of that numbered version or of any later version
> published by the Free Software Foundation. "


Indeed, I'm not questioning that. My point is that the objective of
debian/copyright is documenting, not relicensing, even if it is
permissible.



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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler