clarification of license of generated install scripts

Anton Piatek anton at piatek.co.uk
Fri Sep 12 19:42:50 UTC 2008


Hi,
I am writing to get clarification of the license of the generated
preinst and postrm scripts that are built by make-jpkg.

I work for a large IT company, and we are trying to support Debian and
Ubuntu user within the company. I was hoping to use make-jpkg to
convert the ibm-java packages to .deb, however as java-package is
under GPL, there is a worry that if the packages are distributed
outside the company (which they should not be because of the license
of the upsteam java) that the inclusion of the preinst and postrm
scripts would mean the whole package must be under the GPL.

Can you confirm what license the generated scripts are under? If they
are not under any license, could java-package be changed to state this
in its copyright file?

Thanks,

Anton

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