Relicensing (was Re: Initial cut at a Debian package linting wrapper for Firehose)
On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 16:09 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 18:48 -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> Hello, Firehosen,
>
> I've just hacked a basic wrapper around one of the most used Debian
> tools; Lintian. It's currently brokenish (need to work out some stray
> Nones in the schema), but should be good to go shortly. Check it out on
> GitHub[1]
Nice. I started making a list of projects using Firehose in the
README.rst and added a link.
> While wrapping it, I also added some helper functions which could use
> some feedback. They're very Debian-centric, but could be simply adapted
> for Firehose proper if we decided on that.
Those would be:
https://github.com/paultag/storz/blob/master/storz/deb.py
right?
If every Debian project using Firehose is going to use code like that,
then it would makes sense to slurp that into Firehose itself, but I
don't want to force dependencies on people using Firehose that aren't
using the deb functionality (I see you have a couple of "from debian"
imports, which don't exist on this box).
So you could put these into a new firehose/debian.py, or alternatively
put the imports into *method scope* within firehose/report.py, and have
a couple of DebianBinary.from_deb() and DebianSource.from_dsc()
classmethods. (If you also want to slurp in the exception classes into
firehose you'd want to rename them also, naturally)
Oh, and we chatted about this on IRC, but it's worth mentioning here:
we're going to relicense Firehose from GPLv3, probably to "LGPLv2.1 or
later", to allow it to be license-compatible with a broader array of
projects. (I need it to be compatible with GPLv3 so that I can run it
from inside GCC, but I'd prefer a more liberal license so it can be used
e.g. in a wide array of web apps for reporting, and embedded in other
Python-based static analyzers).
See:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#GPL_Compatibil...
Paul: you already agreed to this on IRC, right? The only other
contributor so far is Michael Hrivnak (CCed) who verbally gave me
permission to relicense as I saw fit when we created this thing at
FUDcon a few weeks ago (and also another Red Hatter). (Better to
relicense sooner rather than later, i.e. whilst the number of
contributors is small)
Dave