[Pkg-zsh-devel] Converting zsh's debian/copyright to machine-readable DEP5 format: What's the license of debian/* files?

[Michael Prokop]

* Axel Beckert [Sun Sep 28, 2014 at 07:00:26PM +0200]:
> Clint Adams wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 01:54:07AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:

> > > So I guess it's mostly up to Clint who started the packaging in its
> > > current form to state its license.

> > In my opinion the zsh license is pretty terrible, so for those
> > portions of debian/ on which I hold copyright, I declare them
> > under MIT/Expat[0].

> It does, thanks!

> So I checked who else had significant contributions to zsh's current
> packaging:

> ~/zsh/zsh → find debian -type f | xargs -n1 git blame | awk -F' \(| [12]' '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/ *$//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>       3 Pierre Chifflier
>       3 Wookey
>      15 Richard Hartmann
>      57 Michael Prokop
>    1256 Axel Beckert
>    5825 Frank Terbeck

> These are numbers of lines. Frank Terbeck has so many lines because he
> did the initial import of the packaging into git as it seems.

> I'm fine with MIT/Expat.

> So I'd say if Frank, Mika and Richi are fine with MIT/Expat, too, I'll
> update debian/copyright accordingly.

I as well agree with using MIT/Expat for debian/.

regards,
-mika-
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