2009/12/13 Attila Csipa <ma...@csipa.in.rs>: > On Sunday 13 December 2009 15:13:54 Mustali Dalal wrote: >> Purging copyright files does not seem right; they are tiny and have legal >> bearing. >> >> Since a lot, if not all, apps currently in testing use GPL or other FOSS >> license, I would guess there be good reasons to keep the copyright file >> installed with the package. Would there be license violation if a copyright >> file is not installed with the package? >> >> or is this a non-issue for developers? > > I'm wondering maybe we could have a license package we could depend on and > then just use a softlink or something similar ? A Depends: license-gpl (>=3.0) > sounds simple enough to me and then the license is crystal clear and we don't > have to duplicate the license for each package and the license package can > provide all the legalese. It would also simplify checking/verifying proper > licensing in the autobuilder. Just a thought.
License != Names of copyright holders. Also, some packages include files with different licenses, and the debian/copyright should contain information about them. For different files, there might be different copyright holders and parts of the code could come from different sources. The debian/copyright file can sum up all these facts. For example, have a look at the copyright file for mplayer in Debian: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1/mplayer.copyright Thomas _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
