Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer

2015-03-30 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 25/03/2015 18:30, Paul van der Vlis a écrit : > >> They're probably doing some crazy AGPL bits on top of more restrictively >> licensed bits; since they're the copyright holder, they can do that, but >> it may mean that no one else can actually use and/or distribute the >> code. > > No,

License for Debian Maintainer Scripts

2015-03-30 Thread Micheal Waltz
Is there a license that maintainer scripts for packages fall under? I'm wondering about anything under /debian for a package, specifically postinst, postrm, etc type scripts. Thank you, -- Micheal Waltz Unix Configuration Management (go/ucm) Qualcomm Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-l

Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts

2015-03-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:56:57AM -0700, Micheal Waltz wrote: > Is there a license that maintainer scripts for packages fall under? I'm > wondering about anything under /debian for a package, specifically postinst, > postrm, etc type scripts. Check the package copyright file. It should be noted i

Re: License for Debian Maintainer Scripts

2015-03-30 Thread Ben Finney
Micheal Waltz writes: > Is there a license that maintainer scripts for packages fall under? If the copyright holder in those files grants one, yes. The copyright holders for the maintainer scripts (and all the other Debian packaging files) are often the package maintainers. For free software,