Re: [Maria-developers] [Otto Kekäläinen] Fwd: initial feedback on mariadb

Hi, Kristian! On Aug 16, Kristian Nielsen wrote:

Hi,

Otto asked for help with the copyright file for the Debian MariaDB packages.

As I understand it, the .deb packages have a file

/usr/share/doc/mariadb-server-5.5/copyright

and there are some scripts in Debian that check the file against what is in the headers of source files and possibly other checks (error output attached below).

Otto did something, but there is apparently more needed.

Can some of you who understand the finer points of licensing among Oracle, Monty Program, MariaDB Services, MariaDB foundation, Percona, ... please look into this and help Otto fix up things? Debian are usually very careful with licensing, so this could easily become a blocker otherwise (I assume).

I'd say, let us treat the copyright headers in source files as the authoritative source. Then the debian copyright file should simply say exactly what copyright comments do. And there will be no mismatch between them. And Monty Program AB and MariaDB Foundation will be appropriately mentioned, as needed. Regards, Sergei

Sender: otto@seravo.fi From: Otto Kekäläinen To: Kristian Nielsen Subject: Fwd: initial feedback on mariadb Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:56:41 +0300

Hello Kristian,

Please note the feedback from Nicolas below.

In commit https://github.com/ottok/pkg-mariadb/commit/90d63b0348a960ca1a119e8961784e3d... I did what I could, but I suspect the file is too much inclined towards Oracle as the old debian/copyright didn't have any MariaDB/Monty Program etc mentions I could have copied over. Could you insert mentions of MariaDB Foundation, Monty Program AB etc in appropriate places, following the new format?

Also you could check the output of licensecheck and consult with you project if all copyright headers are correct in upstream sources.

Thanks for your help!