Fedora packaging

[LecrisUT]

Let me know when I should start packaging this project.

[henryiii]

Probably after #32 is in and we make a release?

[henryiii]

v0.2.0 is out.

[LecrisUT]

Are the UseCython.cmake files effectively vendored or would they be forked? If the latter could you change the copyright notice for it to reflect that?

[henryiii]

If someone uses this package, they would use the files from the package. If they prefer, they can vendor the files, which means they don't need to get this package from Fedora. What change were you thinking of?

[LecrisUT]

I was thinking about the more general case:

cython-cmake/src/cython_cmake/cmake/UseCython.cmake

Line 58 in ec03867

# Copyright 2011 Kitware, Inc.

If the file is being maintained externally than I would need to add a Bundles to show that, otherwise it would be fine as-is

[henryiii]

I think that date was inherited. @jcfr?

[LecrisUT]

Was thinking you could just add

# Copyright 202x Scikit-build developers

Or equivalent, marking when it got forked from kitware's

[henryiii]

I don't think it's a good idea to assign copyright to something that's not a legal entity. A person works, or a company, but "... developers" is too fuzzy and unclear. That's what I remember from a discussion with a lawyer a long time ago, I might be misremembering it though.

[LecrisUT]

I remember there being some discussion on Fedora mail list¹ about jaraco removing copyright notice². I need to read through the mail list more carefully, but afaiu it is ok if the authorship is self contained. There is also this article which many people resonate with, but of course inal.

Footnotes

1. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/FOS55EPT4MEJXIY3CHWM26X5ACG66TQU/ ↩

2. https://github.com/jaraco/skeleton/issues/78 ↩