[oss-devel] Preparing an official package..

[Hannu Savolainen]

Yair K. wrote:
> On Monday 02 June 2008 21:37:13 Hannu Savolainen wrote:
>   
>> Romain Beauxis wrote:
>>     
>>> Le Monday 02 June 2008 04:04:51 Hannu Savolainen, vous avez écrit :
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>> First of all, concerning the licence:
>>>>>  * Is it the whole code GPLed ? (naive question)
>>>>> I mean that even if the global licence is GPL, there could be other parts
>>>>> which are not GPL. This could also include the documentation that could
>>>>> be GFDL for instance.. Those licencing questions are very important for
>>>>> an inclusion, and often thake time to check (and are really boring too),
>>>>> so your help is welcome here :)
>>>>>  
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> There are some closed source packages in OSS but they are not included
>>>> in the tarballs. So all drivers included in the GPL source package are
>>>> under GPL. Some header files and/or sample programs may be under the BSD
>>>> license but all this code is for user land only.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Well, that's what I was afraid of.. The debian/copyright file has to report 
>>> each file's licence if it differs from main licence. I means I'll have to go 
>>> through each of them to check the licence..
>>>   
>>>       
>> There is no need for that. Just don't include anything that is located 
>> under the tutorials/ or utils/ subdirectories. All the other files are 
>> under GPL.
>>     
>
> What about include/soundcard.h?
>   
soundcard.h is under GPL too. However in the hg tree it says released 
under BSD.

All the #define COPYINGn lines in the golden source tree (hg) will be 
replaced by the actual GPL/CDDL/BSD license when the source tarballs are 
cut. Most other files in the hg tree say "All rights reserved" for the 
same reason.

Best regards,

Hannu