On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Matthew Johnson <mj...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat Jan 09 18:15, Onkar Shinde wrote: >> I am looking for sponsorship for package electric version 8.10-1. The >> packaging bits are updated in pkg-java svn. I have also uploaded the >> source package to mentors.d.n. [1] > > Some of the files (for ex > electric-8.10/com/sun/electric/database/geometry/btree/CachingPageStorage.java, > but I've not checked others) would seem to be LGPL 3+, not GPL 3+, which > is the only licence listed in debian/copyright. While this isn't the end > of the world (the resulting binary is GPL 3+, and you can treat all the > LGPL files as GPL) they should really be listed in debian/copyright.
I will clarify this in debian/copyright. I should make it a habit to check copyright of all files when packaging new upstream version. > More worryingly, some of the tests (eg: > electric-8.10/com/sun/electric/tool/simulation/test/Agilent34970A.java) > just say: > > Copyright (c) 2004 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > which technically means we don't have permission to distribute them > (even if only in source form). Unless we can get a statement (from sun) > that these are also under the GPL I think they need to be stripped from > the source tarball (everything under > com/sun/electric/tool/simulation/test looks like a good bet) I will contact upstream authors about this. If I don't get satisfactory response soon then I will strip these files from .orig.tar.gz and update get-orig-source target for this purpose. > I have uploaded java-gnome now though. Thanks for this. Onkar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
