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Hello Xiyue,

thank you for taking over my packages after the Debian project kicked me out[1] and orphaned all my packages. I'm not interested in holding copyright[2] and actually believe, that the obsession with copyright for insignificant stuff in the Debian project
is another example of submission to authority without independent thinking.

One can only claim copyright for something that has any level of creativity or originality. The debian/* part of emacs packages however is almost 100% auto-generated.

That having said, I hereby grant anybody permission to assign any license of their liking to any packaging work I ever did in the Debian project or to claim copyright for my work or to not mention my contribution at all.

[1] https://blog.koch.ro/posts/2023-03-15-debian-exclusion.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/02/msg00023.html

Thomas Koch

Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> hat am 28.06.2024 13:36 EEST geschrieben:

Package: elpa-web-mode
Version: 16.0.21-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Thomas Koch <[email protected]>, Thomas Koch <[email protected]>

When working on updating the packaging of web-mode, it is noticed that
the Debian packaging work of `debian/*' does not have a copyright holder documented in debian/copyright file[1]. How the copyright of the
packaging should be interpreted is still being discussed[2]. Meanwhile,
it would make it easier if Thomas can clarify the copyright license and status of his packaging work, which will make it easier to process
moving forward.

Besides web-mode, there are other packages maintained by Thomas that
seem to share the same issue, including editorconfig[3], emacs-lsp-haskell[4], git-auto-commit-mode[5], and org-drill[6].

Therefore I'm CCing Thomas in hope to receive his reply on clarifying
this matter, and if possible, for all the aforementioned packages.

Thanks in advance.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/web-mode/-/commit/df7a8cc10bef7d057bd728b3fa92b930d4eabde2
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2024/04/msg00001.html
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/editorconfig/-/blob/master/debian/copyright?ref_type=heads
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/editorconfig/-/blob/master/debian/copyright?ref_type=heads
[5] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/git-auto-commit-mode/-/blob/master/debian/copyright?ref_type=heads
[6] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/org-drill/-/blob/master/debian/copyright?ref_type=heads

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages elpa-web-mode depends on:
ii dh-elpa-helper 2.1.2~bpo12+0manphiz1
ii emacsen-common 3.0.5

Versions of packages elpa-web-mode recommends:
ii emacs 1:29.3+1-3~bpo12+1
ii emacs-gtk [emacs] 1:29.3+1-3~bpo12+1

elpa-web-mode suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Xiyue Deng

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