Hi Steve,
On 26.10.23 05:23, Steven Robbins wrote:
On Monday, October 23, 2023 1:00:09 P.M. CDT Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
Hi,
please ask upstream to add all licenses of embedded stuff like
./sources/plugins/shared/hidapi
Could you expand on this request? Each file notes "At the discretion of the
user of this library, this software may be licensed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License v3, a BSD-Style license, ..."
yes, but the sentence goes on: "..., or the original HIDAPI license as
outlined in the LICENSE.txt,
LICENSE-gpl3.txt, LICENSE-bsd.txt, and LICENSE-orig.txt"
The GPL is ok, but the BSD-Style license is not at all unambiguous and
what is the contents of LICENSE.txt and LICENSE-orig.txt?
They should be "located at the root of the source distribution.", but
they are not, hence my request.
The debian/copyright
specifies GPL-3:
Files: sources/plugins/shared/hidapi/*
Copyright: 2022, 2023 libusb/hidapi Team
License: GPL-3
Yes but this is just a part of the license, at least the "... or BSD-3"
is missing. According to Debian policy 12.5 a "verbatim copy of its
distribution license(s)" need to appear in your debian/copyright.
Sorry, that is a clear miss on my part. I will clarify the license or remove
these before re-uploading.
Ok, great, thanks a lot.
Thorsten
