New Package: x2x

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:27 -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
> > * The upstream code is not in compliance with the terms of the GPL and
> >   upstream authors should be alerted to this issue.
> >         
> 
> I do not believe this is the case.  Can someone confirm?
> 
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Since x2x.c (which contains main()) is the file that has the GPL
attached to it, I think the software definitely falls under this.
Perhaps the upstream author knows that he is not infringing due to
talking with the winvnc author/maintainer or because the license is
stuck on x2x.c but doesn't actually contain any winvnc code anymore but
it's not in the package so we don't know.

If that's the case, the license issue needs to be clarified by the
upstream author.  It would be best in a file in the distributed tarball
that we can include via %doc.

> > Question: Should we add a GPL Copying file to the package documentation?
> >         
> 
> Is this absolutely nesicary for each and every GPL'd package?  I nope
> not.  :-)
> 
$ locate COPYING |grep /usr/share/doc |wc -l
341

I recall at least two threads on having to include the COPYING file in
every GPL licensed package in the past.  So far the answer has been yes.

-Toshio
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