[Debian-med-packaging] Fwd: Comments regarding biomaj_1.1.0-1_amd64.changes

[Olivier Sallou]

Hi,
I just want to clear the license point.
The CeCILL license we use in the Biomaj code is the equivalent of GPL.
This is only a rewrite of the GPL to be coherent with french law. Pure 
GPL is not recognized (from a law perspective) in France. The CeCILL 
licenses have been created to use those (GPL, LGPL etc...) when code is 
created in France.
It is mainly used in French academic institutions.

So, using GPL for debian/* remains coherent with the CeCILL code in the 
"core".

Regards

Olivier

Le 3/31/11 8:40 AM, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:47:29PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> Le Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:08:50PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
>>>    1. Simply mention the GPL location on Debian systems at the very
>>>       end - it might not harm to mention it anyway because it was refered
>>>       to in the text.
>>>    2. Use a lintian-override
>>>    3. Use GPL for debian/* files and thus mentioning GPL location is
>>>       simply correct.
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> the GPL is quite a complex license, so I am reluctant to add it to a work that
>> is not using it upstream.
> So this is your argument against suggestion 3?
> Olivier has choosen this and as far as I understood the CeCILL text it claims
> compatibility with GPL ... but the relation between different free licenses is
> sometimes more complex than I'm willing to spend time into it.
> If you consider this as a solution which is not really safe, we should probably
> go with my suggestion 1 to avoid any trouble.
>
>> I would suggest the CeCILL license of “same as
>> Upstream” for the debian directory.  We can add a comment section to mention
>> the local copy of the GPL, since it is mentionne in the CeCILL license itself
>> it does not harm.
> ... and this is a preference for item 1?
>
>> Apart from this, I have reformatted the file.  The problem was that some of the
>> fields need to be indented and the empty lines escaped like in Debian control
>> data files.
> Kind regards and thanks
>
>          Andreas.
>

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