[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-video_1.0.2-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Joerg Jaspert]

On 11781 March 1977, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

>> rejected, I disagree with your debian/copyright. It lists "License:
>> other" and then the MIT/X11 style one. And totally misses that 99% is
>> actually BSD, and only one file has the one you mention. Please adjust.
> Thanks for the heads up, I have completely overseen that.

> Do you think that the copyright file as attached below would be
> appropriate?

It does look good, but i cant look at the source right now. And a final
answer will only be given when the package is in NEW again and I press
"A"ccept (or Reject :) ).

> Note that source files avctest.cc and Makefile.in are lacking
> copyright notices and licensing terms.  Do you think I can assume they
> are released under the BSD terms, as stated in the
> ${topdir}/DESCRIPTION file (also attached below)?

Yes, unless there is reason to doubt it we assume default license/author
of the package. Otherwise nearly no package could ever be accepted.

-- 
bye, Joerg
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<lenny> uargs, wie das brennt
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