RFS: instantbird

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Tue Dec 15 17:25:20 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 06:20:34PM +0100, Gabriele Giacone wrote:
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Before I get to build the package and see what the binary package
> > actually looks like, a small nitpick that would be better to fix before
> > the package gets in the NEW queue: The copyright file references
> > "xulrunner" which is maybe not really accurate, but more importantly,
> > references the mozilla files as if they were at the root of the upstream
> > tarball, when they really are in a mozilla/ subdirectory.
> > 
> > I'll follow up about the binary packages later, on the pkg-mozilla list
> > only.
> Thanks Mike.
> 
> About copyright, I'm thinking about converting d/copyright in DEP-5
> format and also reviewing the Mozilla-related part simply adding that
> page [1] content AS-IS. [1] is referred by [2] in the middle of the page
> as "the licensing document shipped with Mozilla-based products" and you
> can find it under mozilla/toolkit/content/license.html.
> Is it possible to copy it in debian directory as "Mozilla-license.html"
> and add a copyright section like this?
> 
> Files: mozilla/*
> Copyright: <YYYY>-2009, Mozilla Project
> License: Mozilla tri-license MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
>  On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
>  License can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'
>  and the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License can
>  be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1'.
>  The complete text of the Mozilla Public License and third party code
>  (code in Mozilla Project repositories which did not originate with the
>  Mozilla Project) licenses can be found in the file
>  `Mozilla-license.html' in the same directory as this file.
> 
> Shouldn't license file be html? Should I separate MPL license from third
> party code licenses?

You could dump the html file as a txt file with lynx -dump or something
similar. The only problem is that this file unfortunately lacks a lot of
copyright statements, and is not enough for debian purpose.

Mike



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