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Bug#799214: License review: tarsnap

From "Roberto A. Foglietta" <roberto.foglietta@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.legal
Subject Bug#799214: License review: tarsnap
Date 2025-02-05 21:00 +0100
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 18:50, Graham Percival <gperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>
> On 2025-02-05, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 06:06, Michael Lustfield <michael@lustfield.net> wrote:
> > >

[...]

>
> (Disclaimer: I'm a Tarsnap employee, but not a lawyer, and certainly
> don't own the copyright.)

[...]

>
> To clarify, tarsnap does not have a top-level
>     debian/
> directory.  Rather, we have a top-level
>     pkg/debian/
> directory -- but that's (appropriately) ignored by dpkg-buildpackage and
> related deb packaging tools.
>
> As such, making a package would involve adding a *new* top-level debian/
> directory (which may or may not be an exact copy of pkg/debian/).
> There's no need to modify any files that we distribute -- I specifically
> put packaging stuff in pkg/debian/ so that the tarsnap_*.debian.tar.gz
> would not overwrite anything in the .orig source tarball.

That's great. Propose your company to become the Debian tarsnap
package maintainer and life will be easier for all.

Best regards, R-

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License review: tarsnap Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2025-02-05 00:00 +0100
  Re: License review: tarsnap Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2025-02-05 02:50 +0100
    Bug#799214: License review: tarsnap Graham Percival <gperciva@tarsnap.com> - 2025-02-05 06:00 +0100
    Re: License review: tarsnap "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2025-02-05 13:40 +0100
  Bug#799214: License review: tarsnap Graham Percival <gperciva@tarsnap.com> - 2025-02-05 19:00 +0100
    Bug#799214: License review: tarsnap "Roberto A. Foglietta" <roberto.foglietta@gmail.com> - 2025-02-05 21:00 +0100
  Re: License review: tarsnap Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2025-02-05 23:50 +0100

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