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

[Nigel Kersten]

2010/1/21 micah anderson <micah at riseup.net>:
> 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?

Probably not :)

>
>> 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 Debian, typically quite out of date.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 time ago as it didn't have anything additional, just outdated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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