On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 02:45:11PM +1100, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > Hello, > > If I download software from sourceforge, and it says on the sourceforge > website that it is GPLed, but the downloaded sourecode doesn't contain > any copyright notice or any license, can I include the software in > Debian main? > > Or do I need to ask the upstream authors to please add the > copyright/license files to their prestine source code first?
You should definetly ask the upstream authors to include a licence file,
not only is that easyer for us but it is better for the authors too,
imaging the upstream tarball being redistributed.
In the mean time, quoting the author's e-mail saying that it is GPLed
and/or including the URL where it clearly says GPL in the copyright
file would be a good interim solution.
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Oliver M. Bolzer
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