gizmod

Joseph Price pricechild at ubuntu.com
Thu Jun 28 17:40:33 BST 2007


Thanks Colin :)

I discussed the changes needed with jriddell shortly after the initial
email and we agreed the same.

Have got everything sorted with upstream and he's released a new
version (3.3) with the fix and others for me to upload to revu :)

Thanks again,

Pricey

On 28/06/07, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > I'm rejecting gizmod from the NEW queue.  The sources files are
> > licenced as Apache 2 but the COPYING file is GPL 2 as are some build
> > files.  Apache 2 and GPL licences conflict.  You should contact
> > upstream to release a tar with a correct COPYING file and preferably
> > not include the GPL licenced build files but rather relibtoolize at
> > compile time.
>
> Note that such build files (e.g. config.guess and config.sub) typically
> have an exception statement in them making their GPL-ness somewhat
> irrelevant for this purpose, and that's never been a problem elsewhere.
> The COPYING file should be corrected, though.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
>



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