[Zope-dev] No license distributed with sources

[Tres Seaver]

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Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
> Hello Zope Developers,
> 
> I am packaging many Zope libraries for Ubuntu. But my packages were
> rejected by archive admin because the source tarballs do not satisfy
> the inclusion requirements.
> 
>>From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic#Copyright :
> 
>   * The upstream tarball must contain verbatim copies of all licenses
> that are used by the files in the tarball. References to URLs or paths
> to system files (such as /usr/share/common-licenses/) are not
> sufficient. The license(s) must accompany the source code.
> 
> Every file under the ZPL has a sentence "A copy of the ZPL should
> accompany this distribution." in it's header. But that's not the case.
> Very few packages ship a ZopePublicLicense.txt in their source.
> 
> Reading the ZPL, its first condition is:
> 
> 1. Redistributions in source code must retain the
>    accompanying copyright notice, this list of conditions,
>    and the following disclaimer.
> 
> Since this condition is not met, such packages cannot be legally distributed.
> 
> Who will add a copy of the license to each package in Zope SVN? When?

 $ wget \
   http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/Z/Zope2/Zope2-2.12.3.tar.gz
 $ tar tzf Zope2-2.12.3.tar.gz | grep -i license
 Zope2-2.12.3/src/ZServer/medusa/dist/license.html
 Zope2-2.12.3/ZopePublicLicense.txt


Tres.
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