Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 16:02:34 +0100 Willem Vermin <wver...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package findent: hi Willem, as noted by Phil, the package seems to build and pass the usual test just fine. Some other stuff came up during review though: * changelog: there are changes in d/copyright without mention in the Debian changelog. Please document all packaging changes. * copyright: version mix-up in the new paragraph for the builtparser files: "On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in the file [...]/GPL-3". * copyright: the paragraph for vim/findent.vim and vim/fortran.vim defines the license for these files as 'Fair'. Details of that license don't seem to be present anywhere in the upstream sources, but exist only in d/copyright: > Usage of the works is permitted provided that this instrument is > retained with the works, so that any entity that uses the works > is notified of this instrument. > DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY. I realise you are both upstream developer and Debian maintainer for this package, but those are two separate roles. If you wish to license files in a certain way, you want to wear your upstream hat and ensure the terms are part of the upstream source release. The license text, as quoted above, only grants permission for 'usage', but not modification or distribution, and requires users are to be 'notified of this instrument' whatever that is supposed to entail. Those terms likely fall short of the requirements set in the DFSG [1]. Is there any benefit or purpose to having these specific files under a custom license versus the standard 3-clause BSD that applies to most of the source code? [1]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFreeSoftwareGuidelines Please remove the moreinfo tag (and CC me) once you have an updated package ready.
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