Re: No license distributed with sources
Gediminas Paulauskas <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
2010/2/8 Tres Seaver <[email protected]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gediminas Paulauskas wrote: >> Hello Zope Developers, >> >> I am packaging many Zope libraries for Ubuntu. But my packages were >> rejected by archive admin because the source tarballs do not satisfy >> the inclusion requirements. >> >>>From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic#Copyright : >> >> * The upstream tarball must contain verbatim copies of all licenses >> that are used by the files in the tarball. References to URLs or paths >> to system files (such as /usr/share/common-licenses/) are not >> sufficient. The license(s) must accompany the source code. >> >> Every file under the ZPL has a sentence "A copy of the ZPL should >> accompany this distribution." in it's header. But that's not the case. >> Very few packages ship a ZopePublicLicense.txt in their source. >> >> Reading the ZPL, its first condition is: >> >> 1. Redistributions in source code must retain the >> accompanying copyright notice, this list of conditions, >> and the following disclaimer. >> >> Since this condition is not met, such packages cannot be legally distributed. >> >> Who will add a copy of the license to each package in Zope SVN? When? > > $ wget \ > http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/Z/Zope2/Zope2-2.12.3.tar.gz > $ tar tzf Zope2-2.12.3.tar.gz | grep -i license > Zope2-2.12.3/src/ZServer/medusa/dist/license.html > Zope2-2.12.3/ZopePublicLicense.txt I am talking about the packages making up the ZTK and ZopeApp. I am packaging each of them separately -- see http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/u/menesis . Each one, even the smallest ones like zope.size, zope.filerepresentation, zope.app.zcmlfiles has to contain a license in their source tarballs. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )