[Pkg-puppet-devel] License for debian/*

[micah anderson]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:45:03 +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at debian.org> wrote:
> Nigel Kersten <nigel at explanatorygap.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a slight preference for GPLv2, but I'm happy to go with either.

I'm fine with GPLv2 or later.

> > ditto, although I know upstream are looking to migrate away from GPL
> > once they've gotten approval from all the contributers.

Do you think this has a bearing on the license decision of the packaging
itself?

> As far as I can see, we three are the only committers to what is now in
> debian/*.  (using "git whatchanged debian/")

This is only the information that is contained with the (relatively new)
git repository. There have been a number of us who have put these
packages together over the years that aren't represented there because
the git packaging is new since 0.25.

I'm trying to think of places where that information can be
reconstructed from. One is the debian/copyright file which lists:

This package was debianized by Jamie Wilkinson <jaq at debian.org>

another is debian/changelog which lists the following additional
packaging contributors:

Micah Anderson <micah at debian.org>
Thom May <thom at debian.org>
Matthew Palmer <mpalmer at debian.org>

are there others that are not listed here? 

> The previous version of the packaging info, kept by reductivelabs, was
> moved to conf/debian, and then later deleted.

The packaging that was contained within reductivelabs' git repository
was just a copy of the packaging that we had done and uploaded to
Debian, typically quite out of date. I asked luk to remove that some
time ago as it didn't have anything additional, just outdated
information (and made importing of new releases more of a pain).

> By the way, I was told by James Turnbull on #puppet that 0.25.3 had a
> regression which broke the cron type. They have fixed this in 0.25.4, so
> it probably saved someone some trouble that 0.25.3 was rejected.

Makes sense to cherry-pick this, no?

micah
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