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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> (3) A couple of source files seem to lack a copyright and licence
>>> statement:
>
>>>   src/xml-purge.c: *No copyright* UNKNOWN
>
>>>   autogen.sh: *No copyright* UNKNOWN
>
>
>>> (4) One has a rather different copyright, and a license statement that
>>> needs fixing:
>>>   src/gseal-gtk-compat.h: LGPL (with incorrect FSF address)

Is it possible to make it GPL? I forgot who added this file.

> On 06/23/2011 06:06 AM, Martin Bagge / brother wrote:
>
>> For debian this is RC and will possibly prevent pcmanfm from being
>> included in the stable release.
>
>
> Well, it appears to have been there for a while, both the xml-purge.c
> one and then gseal-gtk-compat.h ones are there in the Debian pcmanfm
> 0.98-1 packages that are in wheezy, and in the 0.97-1 packages that are
> in squeeze, which *is* Debian stable.
>
> If was OK when squeeze was released, why is it RC now?
>
> Anyway: we can fix (4) by editing debian/copyright to state the
> copyright info for that one file.
>
> Adding a copyright to autogen.sh is something PCMan would need to do,
> since he wrote it (I presume).

I forgot who wrote it, but IIRC, Marty Jack did it long time ago.
Later all lxde components use that copy, with some individualized
modifications.

> I do not know how to fix the lack of copyright and licence in
> xml-purge.c, because I have no idea who wrote it.  If PCman did, then he
> can add a licence and copyright notice to it, too.
I did it long time ago.

>>> AUTOMATED PACKAGE BUILDS:
>
>
>>> I have made good progress with this, and expect there will be test
>>> packages automatically showing up in my ppa:jmarsden/lubuntu in a few
>>
>> I have been working on getting better shape of the server that hosts the
>> buildbot. I was thinking about adding a auto export at the end of each
>> successful build. The plan is also to get the code tree updates to
>> trigger builds (I do them by hand at the moment).
>
> Sounds good.  Right now my automated pcmanfm package builds for Ubuntu
> are apparently working OK, see ppa:lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily i.e.
> https://code.launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/+archive/lubuntu-daily
>
> Jonathan
>