On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > One of the package that I Intend To Package, libgap-sage not to mention it > [1], > contains source files that are basically transformation of source files from > an > other software, gap as you have likely guessed it: grossly, a prefix > (libGAP_) is > prepended to each variable/function name. It appears that the copyright notice > in the header of the transformed source files is literally untouched. > libGAP and GAP are both distributed under the GPL-2+ License. > Note that some of these are C headers meant to be installed for systemwide > usage.
Why can't sage just use gap itself? The changes sound like a fork with no purpose. I don't think the security team would like having to do the same bugfixes in two essentially identical packages. https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
