Re: [be] Updated bibledit packaging for Debian/Ubuntu

[Teus Benschop]

Thanks, Jonathan, for packaging bibledit! The users will be glad that
the distro's now get updated.

> (1) The bibledit-* programs lack man pages -- is what they do documented
> in some other form, so that we can create man pages for each one?

Each of the bibledit-* binaries are not supposed to be called by the
user, hence no man pages are available for these. There's only one for
the bibledit script. This script calls all the other binaries.

> 
> (2) FSF address: In many of the files in the bibledit-3.5.tar.gz
> tarball, the FSF address in the copyright statement is an old one.  A quick:
> 
>  tar zxf bibledit-3.5.tar.gz
>  cd bibledit-3.5
>  find . -type f | xargs grep -l "59 Temple Place" | \
>    xargs sed -i 's/59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
> 02111-1307,/51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301/'
> 
> fixes this for all the GPL licence statements in the code.
> 
> It might be good for someone with commit access to the bibledit version
> control system to make such a change there, also.  We will probably just
> patch these in our source package of bibledit-3.5, but longer term it
> would of course be nice for us to have them fixed in the original source
> tree so such a patch is no longer needed.

Thanks for the hint. I thought they were all up-to-date, but obviously
have not looked thorough enough. I'll change the statements and commit
these into the repository.

> 
> (3) According to licencecheck, a very few bibledit 3.5 source files are
> not actually GPL licenced, despite what the man page says.  These are:
> 
>   olpc/activity.py: *No copyright* UNKNOWN
>   scripts/usfm2osis.pl: BSD (3 clause)
>   src/ustring.cpp: LGPL (v3 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
>   src/rc4.c: BSD (3 clause)
>   src/myfnmatch.c: LGPL (v3 or later)
> 
> Adding an appropriate copyright statement to activity.py would be really
> useful to us so we can get this updated package readily accepted into
> Debian and Ubuntu; can you confirm what its copyright status is, please?

Somebody wrote the activity.py, and the script was put into the bibledit
package for archival purposes only. Till I've ascertained what exactly
the status is, let's put the copyright as GPL version 3. I'll add an
appropriate header later.

> 
> The others are fine, we can document their individual copyrights in
> debian/copyright for the package.  Apparently ustring.cpp has an even
> *older* incorrect FSF address, which should also be corrected.

When I raided glibmm for the ustring.cpp the older address got copied.
I'll update the information in the source, thanks for the hint. (It's
obvious that the FSF people keep moving office...)


> 
> That's it!  We hope this is useful.  And thanks for bibledit!

Very useful indeed. And thanks for your packaging work!

Teus.