[PD] another [readanysf~] install-on-ubuntu guide.

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:09 PM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> That's great Roman!  I have also been working on packaging, with  
>> the aim
>> of getting things into Debian.  Then they'll go into Ubuntu too.  We
>> should try to get a Debian Developer to sponsor the gmerlin stuff so
>> that it gets included.  Its used by Gem too.
>
> i have followed the gmerlin-avdecoder integration into debian a little
> bit, and it seems like everybody who seriously tried, gave up after a
> few rounds. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555852
>
> the problem is, that the code has loads of code not copyrighted by
> burkhard and therefore there is no debian-conformant copyright file  
> (yet).
>
> however, the above post also suggests that finding a sponsor shouldn't
> be too hard.


Sounds like only the debian/copyright file needs to be sorted out.   
That's just a matter of checking out all of the various copyright  
lines listed in the bug report then listing them in the debian/ 
copyright file, which license applies (ie. GPL, BSD, etc), and which  
files are covered by that copyright.  Then submit that package update  
to the bug report.

Anyone up for taking that on?

.hc

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