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

[micah anderson]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:53:07 +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at debian.org> wrote:
> 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"?

Sure. 

However, now that I've thought a little bit more about this, I am
wondering why not just release the packaging into the public domain?
Unless there is a particular reason to have more restrictions, I don't
see why it shouldn't be released under the public domain. A slightly
more restrictive than public domain license would be the MIT license.

But... if there are reasons for why there should be restrictions placed
on the packaging, I guess I'd like to know what those were before I put
them into effect.

So I guess my question is: is there any reason why we can't just release
the packaging to the public domain?

> > 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.

Cool, thanks for doing that, I haven't been able to get online for a few
days so I had not pushed that same change.

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

I am pretty sure there aren't any others, but if they come up later, we
can always add them! :)

micah
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