Copyright issues blocking entry into the Debian archive

[sten0]

Hi David,

Thank you for maintaining tabbar :-) I'm in the process of packaging it for Debian, and I ran into a couple of issues. Debian's FTPMasters are strict about resolving the following types of issues in any upstream source before accepting a package into the archive:

1. Given that it's a fork of Aquamacs TabBarMode, does "the Aquamacs Project" hold the copyright for everything that isn't attributed to someone else, excluding the READMEs, which are presumably yours? From what I can tell "everything else" would be all of the images.
2. Why are up.png and down.png not converted to tiff? I found the instructions for conversion in README, but couldn't find an explanation.
3. Please add a full-text copy of both the GPL-2+ and the GPL-3+ license.

Sincerely,
Nicholas

[sten0]

P.S. a tagged release would also be very much appreciated. Maybe it's time for a version 2.1?

[dholm]

1. Yes, that's correct.
2. The instructions are from Aquamacs and I don't know why some of them were converted to tiff. Perhaps we should revert back to the original pngs.
3. I added the GPL3 license and updated aquamacs-compat.el to GPL3.

[sten0]

On 26 July 2018 at 13:11, David Holm ***@***.***> wrote: 1. Yes, that's correct. 2. The instructions are from Aquamacs and I don't know why some of them were converted to tiff. Perhaps we should revert back to the original pngs. 3. I added the GPL3 license and updated aquamacs-compat.el to GPL3. 1 & 2. I'll mention you in an inquiry to upstream Aquamacs momentarily on

this topic. Debian's FTPMasters are likely to require a file that documents this somewhere in the project. 2. That sounds reasonable to me, but it might have something to do with what @davidswelt writes:

They are PNG presumably to preserve opacity / alpha channels, although I

don’t remember with certainty. I do think that there are C-level changes to image processing to facilitate Aquamacs’ toolbars and tabbars. This may get in the way of effectively extracting the tabbar code for use in GNU Emacs, although it is not necessarily a general problem. aquamacs-emacs/aquamacs-emacs#138 3. Thank you :-) Also, thank you very much for tagging a stable release, it's very much appreciated :-D

[sten0]

It look like @nathaniel or someone else will add copyright info for the icons, closing that Aquamacs issue. Please sync it to tabbar's repository at that time.