On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:48:02AM +0100, J�r�me Marant wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:15:47AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > However, they have to make the note publicaly available before the > > > package is put together, because one must be able to check the license > > > conditions without having to download the package. Where/when do they > > > intend to make the note available? > > > > I don't know about that. We've had lots of packages for which license > > clarification was added to the debian/copyright files. > > I recently proposed to sponsor someone. He had written in the > copyright file of his package that the license was GPL but I couldn't > find any copyright notice in both the upstream tarball and the > website. I simply refused to upload any package until I got the > copyright notice within the upstream tarball.
You could have tried contacting the upstream author for confirmation or something such. Anyway, there is a big difference between package done by non debian maintainers and packages done by us. I suppose we can trust our own enough that they will not add spurious copyright files, or do we ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
