libtypes-uuid-perl_0.002-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Thorsten Alteholz (2014-05-28 22:31:35)
> On Wed, 28 May 2014, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> The CONTRIBUTING.pod stated as CC licensed does not exist in the 
>> tarball, and nowhere is stated that CONTRIBUTED file has same 
>> license.
>
> the file in question is not named CONTRIBUTED but CONTRIBUTING. If you 
> look at the structure of pod files from other packages you uploaded, 
> they look rather similar. So the file CONTRIBUTING seems to be derived 
> work from CONTRIBUTING.pod and according to the CC-license of 
> CONTRIBUTING.pod, the file CONTRIBUTING must have the same one.
>
>> Instead the upstream COPYRIGHT file (which you might notice uses 
>> Debian DEP5 format - Toby is really cool!) states explicitly that the 
>> licensing of the CONTRIBUTED file is "unknown".
>
> Yes, it is unknown because some tool he used to create the COPYRIGHT 
> file did not recognize the paragraph at the end.
> Anyway, if the license of this file is unknown, we would not have the 
> permisson to distribute it. I would say that this is a worse solution.
>
> Maybe you can get a statement from Toby about the files CONTRIBUTING 
> and CONTRIBUTING.pod.

We hang out on irc, and I already discussed this before seeing above - 
and Toby has now clarified the situation (supporting your interpretation 
- which I, from your reasoning above even disregarding Toby's 
clarification, agree with myself).


Thanks,

 - Jonas

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