r2145 - in zope2.12/trunk/debian (changelog copyright)

[Michael Mulich]

Gediminas, Jonas-

On 11/25/10 11:22 AM, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> On 25/11/2010 Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
>>>   Author: pumazi-guest
>>> Revision: 2145
>>>
>>> Updating the copyright. Everything pulled in via the rules' get-orig-source target is under ZPL 2.1. Consult the source's COPYRIGHT file to verify these findings. The other licenses that were once mentioned in the copyright are from Python distributions that have since been packaged separately.
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>>   zope2.12/trunk/debian/changelog
>>>   zope2.12/trunk/debian/copyright
>>>
>>> Modified: zope2.12/trunk/debian/changelog
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- zope2.12/trunk/debian/changelog     2010-11-16 15:19:33 UTC (rev 2144)
>>> +++ zope2.12/trunk/debian/changelog     2010-11-24 16:22:24 UTC (rev 2145)
>>> @@ -24,8 +24,11 @@
>>>    * Removed an acient shell script in DocumentTemplate that dates back
>>>      to the time of Python version 1.5.
>>>    * Touched up the init script to provide remote_fs compatiblity.
>>> +  * Updated the copyright. Everything pulled in via the rules'
>>> +    get-orig-source is now under ZPL 2.1. Consult the source's COPYRIGHT
>>> +    file to verify these findings.
>>>
>>> - -- Michael Mulich (pumazi)<michael.mulich at gmail.com>    Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:11:35 -0500
>>> + -- Michael Mulich (pumazi)<michael.mulich at gmail.com>    Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:18:53 -0500
>>>
>>>   zope2.12 (2.12.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
>>>
>>>
>>> Modified: zope2.12/trunk/debian/copyright
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- zope2.12/trunk/debian/copyright     2010-11-16 15:19:33 UTC (rev 2144)
>>> +++ zope2.12/trunk/debian/copyright     2010-11-24 16:22:24 UTC (rev 2145)
>>> @@ -4,10 +4,358 @@
>>>   This package was put together by the Debian Zope team from sources obtained
>>>   from:
>>>
>>> -  http://www.zope.org/Download/
>>> +  http://weblion.psu.edu/svn/weblion/weblion/hosting/zope2-tarball/
>>> +  http://download.zope.org/Zope2/index/
>>> +  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/
>>>
>>> -Author: Zope Corporation<info at zope.com>
>>> +Author: WebLion Group<support at weblion.psu.edu>
>>> +License: GPL 2
>>>
>>> +
>>> +                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
>>> +                       Version 2, June 1991
>>
>> This is a very long license -- it is better to include only the
>> disclaimer of GPL and refer to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
>>

I wasn't sure I could do that. Thanks for pointing this out.

>> But why GPL is the main license of this package, while most of the
>> code is under ZPL? If you want only the packaging to be GPL, first
>> specify ZPL for all files and then GPL for the packaging, like this:
>>

I don't have a good reason. I just knew I needed to change something in 
this file; so I took a stab at it. Thankfully you are watching to point 
out my mistakes.

>> Files: *
>> Copyright: (C) 2001-2010 Zope Foundation and Contributors.
>> License: ZPL-2.1
>>   Zope Public License (ZPL) Version 2.1
>>   ...
>>
>> Files: debian/*
>> Copyright: (C) 2010 WebLion Group<support at weblion.psu.edu>
>> License: GPL-2
>>
>> I see you don't use the machine-readable copyright format, please look
>> at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ . This format allows to easier
>> specify and understand different copyrights and licenses of any files.
>> For examples,
>>
>>    $ grep '^Format-Specification: .*dep5' /usr/share/doc/*/copyright
>>
>> An example of a zope package with this style of copyright:
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~menesis/ubuntu/maverick/zope.minmax/maverick/annotate/head:/debian/copyright
>
> I agree with Gediminas here.

I agree as well. I simply didn't know whether to pursue dep5 or not. My 
inexperience with Debian packaging shows here.

I'll fix this when I have a chance. Thanks.

-Michael Mulich (pumazi)