[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Built hostapd/wpasupplicant 2.1 (patch)

[Gerald Turner]

Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H at gmx.de> writes:
> On Saturday 31 May 2014, Gerald Turner wrote:
> [...]
>> I paid particular attention to merging upstream's defconfgs and
>> debian/config/* files, activating several options:
> [...]
>
> Thank you for your efforts, but these changes are the straight-forward
> and easy part. What you've missed in your patch, is the actual
> difficulty (well, not 'difficult', but extremely time-consuming and
> tiresome) involved, updating debian/copyright... Upstream relicensed
> from dual-licensed "GPL2 || BSD" to 3-clause BSD exclusively[1], due
> to significant files movements (wpa_supplicant learning more tricks
> that were usually reserved to hostapd) and quite a few new features
> from new authors (like WiFi Direct/ p2p) it is not done with a mere
> s/BSD\ or\ GPL-2/BSD/.

Yikes!  Last week I had opened that file (first step: where's upstream?)
and was horrified by all the attributions in individual files.  I
suppose this is made worse by upstream having two git repositories
(manual work to track file movements).

Would you like me to spend some time reconstructing a DEP-5 copyright
file for 2.1, or would that also be wasted effort?

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