1.5.0-alpha2 contrib/ license audit

[Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org>]

FYI - I've updated my contrib/ copyright license audit, the file that
helps me keep track of which bits of the subversion tarball I have to
delete before shipping it in Debian, by virtue of not having explicit
permission from the authors to ship those files, and not knowing what
license terms they favor even if we can assume implicit permission to
distribute.

  svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-subversion/branches/1.5.x/debian/contrib-license-audit

I only audit the contrib/ directory, as everything else in the tarball
is implicitly covered by the Subversion license.

I'd be very happy if all the files I've flagged as undistributable were
either marked with proper license information, or deleted, before 1.5.0
ships.  It's not a huge deal, but it's nice not to have to repack the
tarball to remove bits before I ship.  I do note that several files I
flagged in 1.4.x have since been tagged with license info, so that's
good.
-- 
Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/


(Quoting from that file...)

* No license :(, must remove from tarball:
  cgi/mirror_dir_through_svn.*
  client-side/diff-wrap.sh
  client-side/diff3wrap.bat
  client-side/diffwrap.bat
  client-side/svn-log.pl
  client-side/svn_all_diffs.pl
  client-side/svn_load_dirs/*
  client-side/vim/*
  hook-scripts/detect-merge-conflicts.sh
  server-side/backup-recipe.sh
  server-side/load_repo_with_mergesensitive_copy.sh

Re: 1.5.0-alpha2 contrib/ license audit

["Daniel L. Rall" <dl...@finemaltcoding.com>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> FYI - I've updated my contrib/ copyright license audit, the file that
> helps me keep track of which bits of the subversion tarball I have to
> delete before shipping it in Debian, by virtue of not having explicit
> permission from the authors to ship those files, and not knowing what
> license terms they favor even if we can assume implicit permission to
> distribute.
> 
>   svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-subversion/branches/1.5.x/debian/contrib-license-audit
> 
> I only audit the contrib/ directory, as everything else in the tarball
> is implicitly covered by the Subversion license.
> 
> I'd be very happy if all the files I've flagged as undistributable were
> either marked with proper license information, or deleted, before 1.5.0
> ships.  It's not a huge deal, but it's nice not to have to repack the
> tarball to remove bits before I ship.  I do note that several files I
> flagged in 1.4.x have since been tagged with license info, so that's
> good.
...
> * No license :(, must remove from tarball:
>   cgi/mirror_dir_through_svn.*
>   client-side/diff-wrap.sh
>   client-side/diff3wrap.bat
>   client-side/diffwrap.bat
>   client-side/svn-log.pl
>   client-side/svn_all_diffs.pl
>   client-side/svn_load_dirs/*
>   client-side/vim/*
>   hook-scripts/detect-merge-conflicts.sh
>   server-side/backup-recipe.sh
>   server-side/load_repo_with_mergesensitive_copy.sh

Peter, I've put a proper license on diff-wrap.sh, and nominated that change
for backport to the 1.5.x release.

It'd be great if the authors of these other scripts would do the same.