Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:54:14 -0400 Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights for files in the debian

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:23:01 -0400 Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: I don't personally think it's interesting or relevant to record in debian/copyright the license of generated files, and there is certainly nothing in Policy that requires you to do this. Why do you ask? My

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org writes: My sponsor requested me to add debian/copyright entries for files in the generated HTML documentation. The documentation is generated by Sphinx, and Sphinx adds some templates and js libraries which are then covered (at least that's what I believe) by

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:26:36AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: Hi, ..and configure scripts have parts of autotools, Makefile.ins contain code from automake, and even compiled binaries contain stuff that originates from the compiler. I don't think these should be documented in

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Sven Hoexter s...@timegate.de writes: The question is what should be achieved with d/copyright? Give just a short overview over the main parts of the package or a complete overview of the complete package contents? My understanding is, that it should be a complete overview of the source

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:13:24AM +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit : My understanding is, that it should be a complete overview of the source licenses. I do not treat generated files as source, because, well... they're not. They might come in the source tarball, like the autotools-generated

DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hi, I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files that are installed by the generated .deb. Does that mean that files that are *generated* during execution of debian/rules (e.g. rendered

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files that are installed by the generated .deb. Does that mean that files that

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:54:53PM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files that are installed by the generated .deb. Does that mean that files that are *generated*

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:54:53PM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files that are installed by the generated .deb. Does

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files that are installed by the