Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> writes: > Why the entire contents? The only thing that clause requires is “the > attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file”.
Let's make this more concrete, because I'm not sure you understand the nature of the problem. Here's an example of a NOTICE file from a real Debian package: We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that make up portions of this software: This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/). This project uses libraries covered by the Lesser GNU Public License. Source code for these libraries is available on request. This product includes software developed, copyrighted, and/or contributed by: The Ohio State University The National Research Council of Canada The Danish CLARIN Consortium National Institute of Informatics in Japan What parts of this do you think are attribution notices? What parts of this do you think a Debian developer would naturally include in debian/copyright? Important additional piece of information: other than in this file, the string "The Danish CLARIN Consortium" appears nowhere in the upstream source distribution, and the string "The National Research Council of Canada" appears only here and in a CREDITS file. What makes you confident that the process you propose would continue to satisfy the license going forward during normal upstream updates? How much energy would you want to spend on defending your interpretation of this in order to avoid installing this file in the documentation area of the package? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>