On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:52:24PM +0000, Austin English wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010@7:29 PM, Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com writes:
I wasn't worried about the patches being under my name. I'll email the author and ask him to submit them, but I'm not holding my breath, since the Debian wine package is very out of date and inactive. If I don't receive a response in a week or so, would it be okay to submit it under the original author's name?
Only if there is clear evidence that the original author agreed to distribute it under the LGPL.
Sure, better safe than sorry.
The Debian copyright file shows that the software is released under the LGPL: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/wine-unstable/wine-unstabl...
and you can see when the manpage was added in the changelog: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284305 http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/wine/wine_1.1.24-2/changel...
if that's not clear enough, I'll wait for a response from Francois.
Hi, (and sorry, the thread may be messed up - i used the archive to reply)
Austin contacted me yesterday about these manpages, i prefer to reply here to make things clear to everybody.
I thought the Debian wine package maintainer back in the time would ask for inclusion of the user-contributed manpages in the upstream source, like it's usually done :-/
About Licensing (i hate this...)
As long as the AUTHORS section of the manpages i wrote mentions their origins and that modified versions are marked as such, do what you want - it usually causes no problems with GPL software (see for example: http://linux.die.net/man/1/lftpget) so it shouldn't for LGPL :)
Cheers,