[rabbitmq-discuss] Debian rabbitmq-server package rejected

Tue Feb 24 12:31:07 GMT 2009

John,

John Leuner wrote:
> There were some queries from the Debian ftpmaster about rabbitmq's
> copyright.
> 
> 1. We should explicitly list the copyright and (BSD License) for
> amqp-0.8.json at the top of debian/copyright
> 
> 2. 
>> the files src/tcp_* seem to be taken from the cacherl project:
>> http://code.google.com/p/cacherl/

It's the other way round. It looks like the cacherl folks simply copied 
the code that *I* wrote (and first released as part of RabbitMQ 1.1.0 in 
August 2007), removed all copyright and licensing notices, and added 
themselves as the author.

> 3. In debian/copyright we list the copyright and license as:
> 
> Copyright: 2006-2009 Rabbit Technologies Ltd.
> 
> License:
> The RabbitMQ server is licensed under the MPL.
> 
> but further down in the actual text of the MPL license there are
> additional copyright holders

What's the best way of fixing that and point 1 above? Do we simply need 
to tweak debian/copyright? If so, could you please make those changes 
and send the amended file back to me? I can then make sure it gets 
incorporated in the next release.

Regards,

Matthias.