I did start composing a complete DEP-5 debian/copyright file, but it's a big job (grep -r -i copyright | wc -l suggests that there's over 1400 occurrences of the work 'copyright' in the project) so I put it to one side in favour of converting the existing debian/copyright file into a machine readable format (with a comment to say that it's not comprehensive).
I could carry on building up that file, but as I'm neither a Debian Maintainer or Developer, I don't know if there's value in me doing that? Christopher On 24 September 2015 at 15:15, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote: > >>>>> "Mathieu" == Mathieu Simon <mathieu.si...@simweb.ch> writes: > > Mathieu> On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:04:42 -0400 Sam Hartman < > hartm...@debian.org> wrote: > >> control: tags -1 help > >> > >> The help I would really need is a copyright audit from a debian > >> developer. > >> > >> I don't have time for that myself in the near future. > >> > >> Yes, to be useful it really does need to be from an uploading > >> debian developer.:-( > Mathieu> Skimming through the bug report, I'm maybe missing the > Mathieu> point why a copyright audit is needed from a Debian dev? > > Two reasons. > First, the debian/copyright in the current freeradius packaging is kind > of crufty. > Second, there has been a lot of churn between 2.x and 3.x. > > One of the few parts of uploading a new package to Debian that has to be > handled by a developer--not by a maintainer--is handling of the DFSG > evaluation and license compatibility. > The developer constructs debian/copyright and then the ftpmaster team > reviews debian/copyright against every file in the package. > So, you get at least two people looking very carefully about whether > Debian can legally distribute the package and about whether the package > meets the requirements of the DFSG. > > I think there's been enough time and enough change in Debian's thinking > that we should do a full round of that for FreeRADIUS 3 even if we don't > change the package name. > > I wouldn't personally feel comfortable signing the upload without this. > If there's some other DD who believes that less is required (and if that > DD can convince ftpmaster to go along) I will not stand in the way. > > --Sam > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to 797181-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org. >
