On Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 08:25:39AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> writes:
On Wednesday, June 3, 2026 4:32:03 AM Mountain Standard Time Marc Haber wrote:
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:
This is how I handle it for courier:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/courier/-/blob/master/debian/copyright?
ref_type=heads#L77-95
Other than that, I think your debian/copyright snippet is a great
example of how to deal with this if you can't avoid the file: list all
copyright holders and mention all involved licenses using AND clause.
I was not aware of the possibility to use and in the License line. I
think that is one of the better hidden features of the specification.
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/copyright-format-1.0.txt.gz Chapter 7.2 is
recommended reading.
Greetings
Marc
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