On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 07:47:51PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > On 2016-11-23 11:06 -0800, tony mancill wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: tony mancill <tmanc...@debian.org> > > > > * Package name : java-diff-utils > > OK. So my copyright file contains this: > > Upstream-contact: Dmitry Naumenko <dm.naume...@gmail.com> > Source: http://code.google.com/p/java-diff-utils/ > Comment: Much of this code was derived from JRCS, written by Juancarlo Añez > <juancarlo.a...@gmail.com>, which was originally Apache-1.1 and later > relicenced to LGPL-2.1. This version was derived from the 2003.06 LGPL > vintage of JRCS at http://code.google.com/p/jrcs. Clarified in emails > from Juancarlo Añez and Dmitry Naumenko. This is inconsistent with > the headers provided by upstream at > http://code.google.com/p/java-diff-utils/ > > Files: * > Copyright: Copyright 2010 Dmitry Naumenko <dm.naume...@gmail.com> > License: Apache-2.0 > > Files: test/* > Copyright: Copyright 2010 Dmitry Naumenko <dm.naume...@gmail.com> > License: GPL-v3+ > > Files: diffutils/myers/* > Copyright: Copyright 1999-2003 The Apache Software Foundation > License: LGPL-2.1 > > This tooks me weeks to sort out IIRC, so that should be helpful. I did this > in 2013 for v1.2.1 so you will need to update for 2.1.1
This is excellent - thank you! > I also have a packaged libjrcs-java > > The reason I did this was for the caveconverter package, which is > stalled because I also needed to package jscience, which needs > geoapi and javolution, which needs maven-native-helper. I am on the > last package of this 3-year saga... > > Here are the packages I have: > http://wookware.org/software/libjrcs-java_0.4.2-1.dsc > http://wookware.org/software/libdiffutils-java_1.2.1-1.dsc > > I forget if there was more tweaking to do which is why they never > actually got uploaded, but they look plausible. > > I think I persuaded my caveconverter upstream to use jrcs instead of > diffutils to avoid the licence confusion, so was planning to upload > that one, but if you want the other that's fine. I can't find the mail thread > now to remind myself of the details. You bring up a good point regarding the license. I am adding Oliver Kopp to the cc: so he is aware of potential license implications for JabRef. Cheers, tony
