Debian packaging: copyright and embeeded libs

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 18 May 2013 22:14, Adrien <adrien.grellier at laposte.net> wrote:

Dear Adrien I'll answer for bits related to Kexi area.
[..]
>
> The file ./kexi/kexidb/sqlitedump/shell.c has a funny license, which may not
> be free:
> ** The author disclaims copyright to this source code.  In place of
> ** a legal notice, here is a blessing:
> **
> **    May you do good and not evil.
> **    May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
> **    May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

Regarding this please assume the same license as you use with SQLite3
since the code is based on a small tool from SQLite3. This is
basically public domain.

> At last, there is a typo in the copyright mention in
> ./kexi/webforms/view/default/Update.h , but it's not important.

Thanks. This will be fixed in 5 minutes for 2.7 and later.

> - about include libs
>
> Calligra contains embeed copies of some library, which are already packaged
> in Debian:
[..]

>   - kexi/migration/mdb/ (http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mdbtools.html)

This is not just a copy but a fork of software that was not actively
developed for years (that might have changes in the meantime but).
Unless volunteers come and move the modifications upsteam (what can or
cannot be practical but I asked for that) we depend on this exact fork
and this is a bug-for-bug type of dependency.

> If you have any questions about the Debian packaging of Calligra, I will do
> my best to answer.

Thanks for the effort!

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