Dear all, I am packaging Treeview X (GPL) and the upstream tarball contains also the TreeLib (LGPL) and the Nexus library (GPL). For the moment, Treeview X is statically linked to them, just as what is done when building by ./configure && make.
The binary package does not contain the libraries per se, but bits and pieces of them in the binary program. If I understand correctly, I will have to mention their licences in the copyright file. Is adding something like this appropriate? "Treeview X is statically linked to libfoo, and libbar. Libfoo (c) MrFoo 1999 is distributed under the terms of the GPL, and libbar (c) MrBar 1998 is distributed under the terms of the LGPL" (adding extract and link similar to what is already done for the GPL in this file) Do I need separate statements for the statically linked binary file and the full sources of the libraries in the source package? I also wanted to know wether these libraries were already distributed in other source packages, but packages.debian.org did not find anything. But is it searching the sources packages as well ? Lastly, I am wondering wether packaging the libraries separately would be useful if Treeview X would be the only program to use them (in particular, I know that packaging libraries are not recommended to beginners in the art of packaging). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
