Hi Paul, > > I am unsure that a debian/ directory plus the upstream source really > > creates a derived work. > > It definitely does when there are patches to the upstream code in > debian/, which is the case I'm talking about with this feature request.
Ah, mea culpa, I was parsing this as `debian/` and not `debian/patches`. > I don't have any at this point because I wanted to use lintian to > discover instances of this problem :) How would we even know the license of a file under debian/patches? Looking DEP-3 [0] it does not have a `License` field. Perhaps you could mock up an offending entry here so we are 100% certain we are talking about the same things. [0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
