Le Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:52:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > > > given that the source and binary packages are considered a single entity > > -- otherwise we would be violating the GPLs v1 and v2 -- the Debian > > copyright file is not necessary from a strictly legal point of view. > > I don't see the logical justification for this statement. Our compliance > with the GPL does not rely on considering source and binary packages as a > single entity. The GPL explicitly permits us to treat them as two > separate entities and distribute the source separately (which is what we > do).
After reading again point 3 a) of the GPL v1 and v2, I see that I probably misunderstood what "medium customarily used for software interchange" meant. Sorry for the noise. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120512030419.gc29...@falafel.plessy.net
