build system: Add permissive licence for debian/

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

diff --git a/README b/README
index 8cc6e5cad247c3e45125b118019eed6c199cdaf5..ac4a56d2058862e02b3fa73d2025a66c1e4cb87d 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ notice, instead of the full licence grant text:
   SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 As is conventional, this should be read as a licence grant.
 
+The Debian packaging files in the debian/ subdirectory are under a
+more permissive licence - the MIT licence, debian/MIT-LICENCE, as
+indicated in those files by:
+  SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+(This is useful only if (parts of) these files are copied elsewhere,
+since as provided by the GPL3, when the package is distributed as a
+work as a whole, these files are covered by the GPL3.)
+
 Contributions are accepted based on the git commit Signed-off-by
 convention, by which the contributors' certify their contributions
 according to the Developer Certificate of Origin version 1.1 - see

diff --git a/debian/MIT-LICENCE b/debian/MIT-LICENCE
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..d3ecbee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/MIT-LICENCE
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+This licence applies only to the files in debian/*
+
+Copyright 2020 Ian Jackson
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the
+next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial
+portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0ca756cc4174f833126854d2d7a6b44dc2ce7f96..2817ed8e0ee51e14e11c2b24f7bdee9aac9362fa 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,3 +3,7 @@ chiark-tcl-applet (1.0-1~) unstable; urgency=medium
   * 
 
  --
+
+# Copyright 2016,2020 Ian Jackson
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+# There is NO WARRANTY.

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c79ab972def883357b3f4f2858b059fd232565e1..56b4daabee22c0e89f89188d5ab07cf143667d22 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,3 +17,7 @@ Description: Tray widget for battery monitor and other X11 programs
  If you do not yet have an X11 system tray (eg because you are not
  running a desktop environment with panel), consider trayer or
  stalonetray.
+
+# Copyright 2016,2020 Ian Jackson
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+# There is NO WARRANTY.

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 9951a366cd79bfa846296521d83058cd5c633900..7916f8818b398958b89bd794a194fb0959d91692 100755 (executable)
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
+# Copyright 2016,2020 Ian Jackson
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+# There is NO WARRANTY.
+
 export prefix=/usr
 
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