On Tuesday 19 April 2016, Tomas Chvatal wrote:
Ruediger Meier píše v Út 19. 04. 2016 v 16:30 +0200:
On Tuesday 19 April 2016, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 13:33 +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:
BTW I also find it questionable that prepare_spec adds a SuSE copyright line and moreover it replaces the License. I don't think that's right.
It doesn't - It's called 'SUSE' - not SuSE :) (That's the case since 2004; let's get used to it)
At first SuSE should finish their stupid rename work ;)
$ grep -r "SuSE" /usr | wc -l 3158
$ grep -r "SUSE" /usr | wc -l 2923
Suprisingly most of this stuff is arcane unpacked changelogs and header files with copyrights.
IMHO SUSE should have spent effort to update their copyright lines and comments in any project where they have added it. This is the work you have to do for renaming.
This stuff is not updated unless there is any other change. Which is quite fine.
What is more important is that if you google SUSE or SuSE what kind of results you get. Luckily I see only three mentions of SuSE on first 10 google pages, where two of those are pages from 2003 and 2002 and one is download location for postgresql http://www.postgresql.org/download/ linux/suse/
Why did they renamed it all? Such things do not make sense to me to me ... Choosing such ugly CamelCase name was a big mistake. But renaming was an even bigger mistake.
I don't see much trouble with the addition - any added copyright of the author remains in place if he decided to note one down.
It also replaces the license text written by the original author. It looks like the original copyright holder agrees with that license.
Yes it does replace the license. If you disagree with the spec to be licensed MIT then your spec is not mostly acceptable for Factory.
It's not about me. I'm sure that you would find spec files on OBS which were originally imported from other distros or from elsewhere. prepare_spec just changes licenses without caring for the original one.
Thus either you accept it or do not contribute.
How? prepare_spec does the change usually silently, after the patch is reviewed and ready for commit. It should ask if it's ok to change the license or even better it should not run by default at all. Personally I usually don't run prepare_spec automatically. cu, Rudi cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org