Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2013-02-26 19:57:04) > I'm currently revisiting the generation of debian/copyright, and have > stumbled upon a few things that I don't understand in > debian/copyright. > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +License: LGPL-2.1+~Libav > > What's this? What does the ~Libav suffix mean and how did it end > there? Was this some tool or did you add that manually?
I did that by hand. Purpose is to indicate that it is a reference to a licensing statement derived from another more common one. Even if the licensing _terms_ that LGPL-2.1+~Libav grants is the same as the more common LGPL-2.1, the licensing _statement_ is not verbatim identical, and in my interpretation of Debian Policy that means that it needs to be included - and this is the way I found best expressing it. The syntax I chose is - I believe - fully compatible with Copyright file format 1.0, and I intend to propose that syntax as a recommended extension for a future format of that file format. (...and I do expect that proposal to stir some debate about whether my interpretation of Debian Policy is too strict or not - but that is a separate issue to that of the choice of syntax, really. > Is the debian supposed to fall into the first, catch-all paragraph > (Files: *)? Well, in its most strict interpretation: yes. I have - like anyone that I know of - chosen a relaxed interpretation of how to express non-covered files. What I really mean to say with the wildcard "Files: *" entry is that it covers all parts that are not covered more specifically _or_ not covered at all: I have found noone claiming copyright nor granting any licensing for Debian parts of this package. What I often do is to state copyright and licensing in the header of the debian/rules file (because that tends to be the location of most code), and then sloppily interprets statements in that header to cover all of debian/* (except debian/patches/*). Hope that helps, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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