Adopting jack-tools

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sun Aug 22 17:43:48 UTC 2010


On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:32:49AM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:34:45PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 14:44:08 (CEST), Arnout Engelen wrote:
>> > Right - the README does contain a copyright line, states it's GPL 
>> > and links to gnu.org As for not including the GPL license text, is 
>> > that a problem?
[snip]
>> It must be absolutely clear for any party, including the people that 
>> are interested in redistributing work from us (think sidux, ubuntu or 
>> other derivative distributions) what the exact redistribution terms 
>> are. Otherewise there is a considerable risk that the archive 
>> admistrators decide to not include your work in the archive.
>
>I'd say the README pretty clearly states jack-tools is GPL'ed - and 
>after all, the old now-orphaned jack-tools had the same problem and 
>made it into Debian fine.

We all want to do our best.  Now that you want to work on this 
packaging, some of us take a fresh look at the packaging and discover 
flaws which were also flaws in the past, just not noticed.

Noone has the intend of "testing you" or something like that! :-)


>Nonetheless, as promised before, I'll prepare a patch that gets 
>everything into the form recommended by GNU and ask upstream (Rohan) to 
>apply it.

Great!


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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