Re: package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-29 Thread Frank Küster
Willi Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me please if attached copyright file is OK? What I'm > unsure about is if it's enough to list all the mentioned names in the > package or do I have to do the painful act of working out who owns a > copyright on which of the many scripts? Acc

Re: package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-29 Thread Frank Küster
Willi Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me please if attached copyright file is OK? What I'm > unsure about is if it's enough to list all the mentioned names in the > package or do I have to do the painful act of working out who owns a > copyright on which of the many scripts? Acc

Re: package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-28 Thread Willi Mann
Frank Küster wrote: Willi Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the general problems associated with different licenses in one package, you might find a look at http://bugs.debian.org/218105 informative. (Although I hope that your package isn't as mixed as ours). Thanks. Can anyone tell me pl

Re: package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-28 Thread Willi Mann
Frank Küster wrote: Willi Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the general problems associated with different licenses in one package, you might find a look at http://bugs.debian.org/218105 informative. (Although I hope that your package isn't as mixed as ours). Thanks. Can anyone tell me please i

Re: package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-27 Thread Frank Küster
Willi Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the general problems associated with different licenses in one package, you might find a look at http://bugs.debian.org/218105 informative. (Although I hope that your package isn't as mixed as ours). > I can think of these solutions for 2: > > - Distribu

Re: package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
Check out netpbm for a package with many, many licenses. I don't think your case can possibly be worse than that. Anyways, the license file is done in a very systematic way. On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:16:53PM +0200, Willi Mann wrote: > Hi! > > I'm facing a small problem with my package logwatch

package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-27 Thread Willi Mann
Hi! I'm facing a small problem with my package logwatch[0]. Logwatch's licensing file (License) [1] doesn't match the reality in two ways: 1) Logwatch consists of many perl scripts, many of them not written by the maintainer of logwatch (Kirk Bauer), but by various contributors (including me

Re: package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-27 Thread Frank Küster
Willi Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the general problems associated with different licenses in one package, you might find a look at http://bugs.debian.org/218105 informative. (Although I hope that your package isn't as mixed as ours). > I can think of these solutions for 2: > > - Distribu

Re: package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
Check out netpbm for a package with many, many licenses. I don't think your case can possibly be worse than that. Anyways, the license file is done in a very systematic way. On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:16:53PM +0200, Willi Mann wrote: > Hi! > > I'm facing a small problem with my package logwatch

package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-27 Thread Willi Mann
Hi! I'm facing a small problem with my package logwatch[0]. Logwatch's licensing file (License) [1] doesn't match the reality in two ways: 1) Logwatch consists of many perl scripts, many of them not written by the maintainer of logwatch (Kirk Bauer), but by various contributors (including me).