Hi,
aclocal.m4 is obviously built by autotools by concatting segments that
might have contradicting licenses. For example, the aclocal.m4 of the
aide package has AT LEAST the following copyright statements in
different points of the SAME file:
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# Copyright (C) 1996-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
# gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
# with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without
# even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
# PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-----
# Copyright (c) 2008 Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]>
# Copyright (c) 2011 Daniel Richard G. <[email protected]>
# Copyright (c) 2019 Marc Stevens <[email protected]>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
# Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
# option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
# Public License for more details.
-----
dnl Copyright © 2004 Scott James Remnant <[email protected]>.
dnl Copyright © 2012-2015 Dan Nicholson <[email protected]>
dnl
dnl This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
dnl it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
dnl the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
dnl (at your option) any later version.
dnl
dnl This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
dnl WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
dnl MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
dnl General Public License for more details.
-----
What is the way to write this in debian/copyright?
Greetings
Marc
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