Re: [jsapigen-devel] Updates for 1.8.5 and Debian packaging

[Thomas Z. <td...@us...>]

Hi Vincent,

Thank you very much for your work!

Am Samstag, den 30.06.2012, 13:30 +0100 schrieb Vincent Sanders:
> This series of patches applies on the current git master branch and
> allows the generated code to be compiled on spidermonkey jsapi API
> 1.8.5 indeed the genrated code should compile on all versions of the
> api from 1.7 to 1.8.5

Sounds good. I'm naturally short on spare time (who isn't? ;), but I'll
review your patches over the weekend.

> Also included is a working set of usage examples.

In the commit message you mentioned that you took the examples from the
manual, and like to re-license to the MIT license instead of the GPL. 

I don't want to mix examples with actual programs and have different
licenses within the same package. I find this ugly and confusing.
Instead, I'll put the examples in a new package and release it under MIT
license.

> I note that this project is not currently being maintained, which is
> unfortunate. 
> 
> I have recently packaged the project for Debain and was hoping a new
> release might be forthcoming compatible with later spidermonkey API.
> 
> Is there likely to be any future development? or any objection to my
> updates being put in the Debian packaging?

Thanks for taking interest in jsapigen and packaging it. As I mentioned,
my spare time is very limited; so don't expect any extensive development
in the near future. But if you have some patches that you'd like to see
upstream, I'm definitely interested.

> Finally may I ask, for the debian packaging, could the copyright 
> status of files in contrib be clarified as this is required for 
> distribution with Debian.

AFAICS there is only a simple autoconf macro, which is licensed under
GPL-with-autoconf-exception [1]. I'll put in a more verbose statement.

Anything else I can do to make packaging easier?

Best regards,
Thomas

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/autoconf-exception-3.0.html

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