Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> writes: > ❦ 2 janvier 2018 10:42 -0800, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> :
>> We currently allow distribution of a binary-package-only Debian image >> along with a written offer of source or, for non-commercial >> distribution, a simple pointer to the Debian source archives. This >> complies with the GPL but wouldn't, at least by my reading, comply with >> the Apache 2.0 license unless we include the NOTICE files in binary >> packages. (Which is fairly trivial to do -- in fact, I wonder if we >> should just solve this problem in debhelper and add NOTICE to the >> default debhelper dh_installdocs whitelist.) > Except for cases where the whole work is not under Apache license, only > part of it. In this case, the NOTICE file may not be at the > root. License also says documentation is fine, so debian/copyright could > be enough. debian/copyright would definitely be enough if people remembered to check NOTICE for each upstream release and copy its contents into debian/copyright, but I've forgotten to do this for packages in the past. Just installing the NOTICE files seems more foolproof to me, and involves less fiddly checklist stuff with each new upstream release. Good point about it possibly being hard for debhelper to find all the NOTICE files, though. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
