request for sponsorship for pd-hid

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 13, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> 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.

 From what I've seen, debian/copyright is not finer grained than  
files.  The GPLv2+ code is mixed into two different files that are  
mostly GPLv3+.  So if looking on a per-file basis, all of the files  
are GPLv3+.

.hc

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