[TYPO3-core] Move contrib/ out of typo3/

[Christian Welzel]

Am 09.12.2011 11:16, schrieb Ernesto Baschny:

> If you create a Debian package, can't you just include all relevant
> licensing information in the debian's "copyright" file? What does it

Thats what is required by debian policy.

> matter if typo3/ and typo3/contrib/* has different license files
> (considering that they are all GPLv2 compatible, of course)? Where does
> the Debian Policies say that this is not permitted? I have not found

Its not about permission. Its about clearity.

There are tools like lintian which can check if every file in the
packages are matched by an entry in copyright. But these checks are
always inclusive. I cannot say typo3/* is GPL and typo3/contrib/* is
not. The typo3/* line would also match typo3/contrib/*. So i have to
include all single GPL files in typo3/ and then define typo3/contrib/
on its own.

Even if some human looks into the typo3-tgz he would have some surprise
when he notices that typo3/contrib/* has diffrent licenses than stated
in the LICENCE.txt of typo3/.
Moving contrib/ out of typo3/ would make a clear statement regarding
licenses and project affiliation of the included files.


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