[Pkg-puppet-devel] puppet_0.25.3-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Barry deFreese bdefreese at debian.org
Thu Jan 21 01:02:58 UTC 2010


Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> Barry deFreese <ftpmaster at debian.org> writes:
> 
>> Hello maintainer,
> 
> Hello, and thanks for reviewing the latest uppload of puppet.
> 
>> I am rejecting puppet.
> 
> Oh, dear...
> 
>> conf/osx/createpackage.sh is (C) 2008 Google Inc. and carries an
>> Apache 2.0 license.
> 
> Ok, I've added this to debian/copyright.
> 
>> examples/modules/sample-module/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hostname_to_dn.rb
>> is (C) David Schmitt and seems to carry an MIT/BSD style license.
> 
> It is the 3-clause BSD license.  Added to debian/copyright
> 
>> Other minor issues:
>>
>> conf/gentoo/init.d/puppet* are (C) 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation and is
>> GPLv2.  Should probably be noted in debian/copyright.
> 
> Added to debian/copyright
> 
>> You should version your path to the common-license to
>> /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
> 
> Updated.
> 
>> There may be other issues, I stopped checking here.
> 
> I found 14 cases where copyright or license did not match "Reductive
> Labs, LLC / GPL-2+", and added those to debian/copyright. 
> 
>> Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
>> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
>> concerns.
> 
> There are 105 files where there is no license, the copyright mentions a
> year, and the creator in the header is a person from reductive labs.
> Can I assume these are covered by the general copyright and license
> statement from Reductive Labs?
> 
> Could I please ask you to look at:
> 
> <http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-puppet/puppet.git;a=blob;f=debian/copyright;h=5418f6c441aa2c1d4a40279ab86c9c9212286681;hb=63ff54e65aed2630090c9c8423cf14ae7e140c06>
> 
> and see if this is sufficient for a debian/copyright file?
> 
> Thanks,

Stig,

Without access to the source handy it looks OK to me.  Yes, if files have no copyright/license info
in the headers, we assume they carry the overall package license.

Thanks,

Barry deFreese
Debian FTP Assistant



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