[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] r936 - packages/libhpricot-ruby/trunk/debian

Ari Pollak ari at costa.debian.org
Sun Oct 22 17:15:54 UTC 2006


Author: ari
Date: 2006-10-22 17:15:53 +0000 (Sun, 22 Oct 2006)
New Revision: 936

Modified:
   packages/libhpricot-ruby/trunk/debian/changelog
   packages/libhpricot-ruby/trunk/debian/copyright
Log:
* Added note to debian/copyright about license inconsistency

Modified: packages/libhpricot-ruby/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- packages/libhpricot-ruby/trunk/debian/changelog	2006-10-22 17:11:57 UTC (rev 935)
+++ packages/libhpricot-ruby/trunk/debian/changelog	2006-10-22 17:15:53 UTC (rev 936)
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-libhpricot-ruby (0.4-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
-
-  * Remove unused debian/dirs file
-
- -- Ari Pollak <ari at debian.org>  Sat,  7 Oct 2006 12:17:34 -0400
-
 libhpricot-ruby (0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Initial release (Closes: #391329)
+  * Added note to debian/copyright about license inconsistency
 
- -- Ari Pollak <ari at debian.org>  Fri,  6 Oct 2006 19:22:48 -0400
+ -- Ari Pollak <ari at debian.org>  Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:22:48 -0400
 

Modified: packages/libhpricot-ruby/trunk/debian/copyright
===================================================================
--- packages/libhpricot-ruby/trunk/debian/copyright	2006-10-22 17:11:57 UTC (rev 935)
+++ packages/libhpricot-ruby/trunk/debian/copyright	2006-10-22 17:15:53 UTC (rev 936)
@@ -24,5 +24,27 @@
 IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
 CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
+-------
+
+There is one license inconsistency in one of the source files, which the
+upstream author has cleared up:
+
+Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:38:22 -0500
+From: why the lucky stiff <why at whytheluckystiff.net>
+To: Ari Pollak <ari at debian.org>
+Subject: Re: hpricot_scan license?
+
+On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:12:15PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote:
+> I'm currently packaging your HPricot library for Debian, and had a
+> question about the license. The main COPYING file is an MIT-style
+> license, but ext/hpricot_scan/hpricot_scan.h says it's licensed under
+> the same terms as Ruby itself. Is this a special exception, or a
+> mistake?
+
+A complete mistake, thank you for catching it and reporting it. The correct
+license is MIT.
+
+-------
+
 The Debian packaging is (C) 2006, Ari Pollak <ari at debian.org> and
 is licensed under the GPL, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.




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