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

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

micah anderson <micah at riseup.net> writes:
> Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at debian.org> writes:

> I'm fine with GPLv2 or later.

To nitpick, Does that include just "GPLv2"?

>> > 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?

I don't think so.

>> 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>

I've added these to the current debian/copyright.

> are there others that are not listed here? 
>
> 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 Debian, typically quite out of date.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 time ago as it didn't have anything additional, just outdated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).

The previous puppet packaging repository may have this information, if
it exists somewhere.

>> 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?

Unless 0.25.4 is released within, say, next week, that makes sense.

-- 
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
                      ooo, shiny!
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