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

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Sun Sep 28 17:00:26 UTC 2014


Hi,

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.

(It would be nice if the acknowledgement could be sent to the list.)

		Regards, Axel
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