Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-06-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 26 May 2012 22:44:56 gregor herrmann wrote: > My shell history finds > licensecheck -c . -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > but I don't remember if I was impressed by the result or not :) I've used a similar command to update padre package (or was it pan?). Since this comm

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-06-03 Thread Robert James Clay
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 20:25 -0400, Robert James Clay wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 16:47 -0400, Paul Gevers wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 14:18:52 -0400, Robert James Clay wrote: > > > Note also that Lintian now complains about the FSF address in the > > > first license entry, presumably becau

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-06-03 Thread Robert James Clay
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 09:14 -0400, Robert James Clay wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 16:47 -0400, Paul Gevers wrote: > > Please inspect the source files of the program to see what they state > > themselfs. > >The mrtg-ping-probe perl script itself explicitly references the > COPYRIGHT file as f

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-05-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 26 May 2012 13:48:21 -0400, Robert James Clay wrote: > > Then you can do also (from cdbs package): > > /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > I don't use cdbs myself, so that's something I'm not familiar with. > (Nor can I find how it's actually used, as there is no man page that I > can f

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-05-26 Thread Robert James Clay
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 09:53 -0400, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2012 02:25:11 Robert James Clay wrote: > > Ah; good point. I'll take a closer look at all of the files again. > > You can also use (from devscripts package): > > licensecheck --copyright -r . > > This will (t

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-05-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 02:25:11 Robert James Clay wrote: > > Please inspect the source files of the program to see what they state > > themselfs. It is not uncommon to see a statement in the source that it > > is licensed as GPL version 2 or any later value, while the COPYRIGHT > > file is just t

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-05-24 Thread Robert James Clay
Paul, On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 16:47 -0400, Paul Gevers wrote: > > The first thing I noticed when I was doing that is that while the > > original debian/copyright was for GPL-2+ for all files, the actual > > source COPYRIGHT file looks to be GPL-2 not GPL-2+. > > Please inspect the source files of t

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-05-22 Thread Robert James Clay
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 16:47 -0400, Paul Gevers wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 14:18:52 -0400, Robert James Clay wrote: > > The first thing I noticed when I was doing that is that while the > > original debian/copyright was for GPL-2+ for all files, the actual > > source COPYRIGHT file looks to be G

Re: d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-05-22 Thread Paul Gevers
> One of things I decided to do as part of adopting the > mrtg-ping-probe package was to rewrite debian/copyright for DEP-5. Thanks for taking care. > The first thing I noticed when I was doing that is that while the > original debian/copyright was for GPL-2+ for all files, the actual > source CO

d/copyright for mrtg-ping-probe (ITA)

2012-05-22 Thread Robert James Clay
All, One of things I decided to do as part of adopting the mrtg-ping-probe package was to rewrite debian/copyright for DEP-5. The first thing I noticed when I was doing that is that while the original debian/copyright was for GPL-2+ for all files, the actual source COPYRIGHT file looks to be GP