Re: regedit: add a manpage

[Alexandre Julliard]

Austin English  writes:
> While looking at the Debian Wine sources, I found they have manpages
> for several of our bulitin programs :-)

Then you should ask them to submit patches. You can't just grab the
manpages and submit under your name.

regedit: add a manpage

[Austin English]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Alexandre Julliard
 wrote:
> Austin English  writes:
> > While looking at the Debian Wine sources, I found they have manpages
> > for several of our bulitin programs :-)
>
> Then you should ask them to submit patches. You can't just grab the
> manpages and submit under your name.

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since the Debian wine package is very out of date and inactive.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?

FWIW, The original author's name remains in the file, though I did
make a few corrections.

regedit: add a manpage

[Alexandre Julliard]

Austin English  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 since the Debian wine package is very out of date and inactive.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.

regedit: add a manpage

[Austin English]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> Austin English  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 since the Debian wine package is very out of date and inactive.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.

regedit: add a manpage

[François Wendling]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:52:24PM +0000, Austin English wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010@7:29 PM, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> > Austin English  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,