Re: [Bloat] Packages of netperf 2.6 and netperf-wrapper for Arch and Debian/Ubuntu

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>]

On 03/19/2013 10:17 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> writes:
>
>> Ah yes, licensing - I guess netperf not being GPL would be an issue
>> there because the debian packaging scripts are themselves GPL?
>
> Yeah, I think they are by default. However, I looked at the 'copyright'
> file in the debian/ directory (which contains the packaging script), and
> couldn't find any reference to the license of the packaging files
> themselves; it only contained what appeared to be the list of copyrights
>  From netperf itself, with the name of the packager added on top.
>
> I suppose the safe thing to do would be to either (a) fire off an email
> to the packager and ask if he has any objections to his packaging being
> distributed as part of the netperf source, or (b) re-create the
> packaging script from scratch. As for (b), Debian does provide a set of
> scripts to scaffold the packaging scripts, so it might not be too hard
> to do. However, given that I am very much a Debian packaging novice,
> asking for permission to incorporate the existing packaging scripts
> might be worthwhile, at least as a first attempt.

I did send an email to the person I thought was the Debian mantainer - 
didn't get a response from him though.  Probably worth a second shot.

> What, btw, is the purpose of incorporating the packaging scripts? Do you
> want to provide ready-made .debs for download, or do you simply want to
> make it easier for others to create packages? And which distribution(s)
> are you planning to target?

The main reason is to make it easier for others to create packages, 
where others includes myself.

rick