From: Alexei S. <ale...@gm...> - 2012-03-29 20:18:09
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Hi, On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Giulio Paci <giu...@gm...> wrote: > Hi to all! > Recently I started collaborating to package Basilisk II for Debian and > now we have a working package. (Package development has been carried out > in a git repository > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/basilisk2.git;a=summary) > > 1) During the package development we noticed that much time has passed > since latest official release. Is a new official release planned? > Official releases are not a requirement, but helps keep track of where a > package come from. Unfortunately, the project does not have enough resources to make official releases. So we have either CVS tip of tree, or unofficial releases that are build / posted at emaculation.com from arbitrary CVS revisions. > > 2) Every Debian package ships a copyright file > (http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/basilisk2.git;a=blob;f=debian/copyright;h=f2a03b994a88348ebb430e50abc96b31fb4dbe0b;hb=HEAD) > that reports the copyright of all the files in the package. > Unfortunately we noticed that software with incompatible licenses (BSD > (4 clause) and GPL-2+) or with unknown licenses are mixed together. Is > there anything that can be done to fix this? Hopefully, we can resolve this. I'm not sure I completely understand the output of this tool, so let me know if the following is correct, in terms of what the tool is reporting: 1. A bunch of the code under slip/ is using BSD 4-clause, which is not compatible with GPL. 2. A bunch of files don't have licenses - hence the tool prints "License: UNKNOWN", "FIXME". Is my understanding of that output correct? For 1, perhaps we can find a newer version of the slirp code that has a 3-clause BSD license or something else compatible with the GPL. I'll have to look. In the mean time, I think there is an option to ./configure Basilisk to not include support for SLIRP networking, which should result in that code not being used. For 2, we'll have to track down where those files come from (I think also from other projects) - most likely they should be GPL licensed. I'll investigate. Cheers, -Alexei |