Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scripsit Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: > >>> > And we ignore any (C) FSF in generated autofoo stuff. > >>> The generated autofoo stuff does not end up in the .deb, so the >>> copyright file needs not describe it. > >> It often ends up in the source package (depending when you run the >> autotools), which we do distribute. > > But is the Debian copyright file supposed to describe the source > package?
I think so. > Not according to my understanding; the source package already > includes the various upstream copyright messages in their original > positions. First of all, that's not always true: Some upstreams don't properly write their copyright files; or they include source files from other projects, but copy only "the interesting files", in other words they don't include the other project's copyright file. Have a look at #218105 which I'm currently working on... Second, in most cases if you're interested in the copyright and licensing of a piece of software, you're interested in the sources, anyway. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)