On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:25:31AM +0100, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote: > Now the question is how backporting this information to make it available > on > debian packages. [0] and [1] paths are packaged in koffice-libs. > I could think of this solutions: > > 1- Tell upstream to commit that information on the relevant branch[0]. (see > below). > 2- Add a section on the debian copyright file (koffice-libs) > 3- Provide copyright statements as they are in /usr/share/doc/koffice-libs/
If you have a written statement by upstream about the license (e.g. as email), it should be enough to include that in debian/copyright. It is not necessary (though of course preferable) that this information is also available in the orig.tar.gz. (This question comes up quite regulary (i.e. at least once a year) on this list AFAIR, so an archive search might provide further insight) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
