Re: Does Debian itself have a license?

2018-09-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:12:47AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Hong Xu writes: > > > For example, /usr/share/doc/bash/copyright reads "Copyright (C) > > 1987-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc." Although the author of the > > packaging "Matthias Klose " is mentioned, there is no > > license

Re: Does Debian itself have a license?

2018-09-09 Thread Ben Finney
Ole Streicher writes: > This however covers only the *source* of the package, not the binary > packages. There is no way to find out the license of the binary > packages without checking very carefully the sources and the way the > package is created. So, the end user does not know what he is

Re: Does Debian itself have a license?

2018-09-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Hong, On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 12:32:28PM -0700, Hong Xu wrote: > On 09/08/2018 09:51 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Hong Xu writes: > > > >> I understand that each piece of software has its own license in Debian > >> and they can be easily looked up. However, I have trouble finding the > >>

Re: Does Debian itself have a license?

2018-09-09 Thread Ben Finney
Hong Xu writes: > The metadata of packages include information package descriptions, > dependencies, etc. that were created by Debian developers. Thanks for clarifying. Okay, that seems to describe the Debian packaging files, a work that sometimes is part of the upstream work but often is a

Re: Does Debian itself have a license?

2018-09-09 Thread Hong Xu
On 09/08/2018 09:51 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Hong Xu writes: > >> I understand that each piece of software has its own license in Debian >> and they can be easily looked up. However, I have trouble finding the >> license of the Debian itself, e.g., metadata of packages, default >> configuration

Re: Does Debian itself have a license?

2018-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Hong! On 2018/09/08 21:48, Hong Xu wrote: > I understand that each piece of software has its own license in Debian > and they can be easily looked up. However, I have trouble finding the > license of the Debian itself, e.g., metadata of packages, default > configuration files created by the

Re: Does Debian itself have a license?

2018-09-09 Thread Ole Streicher
Ben Finney writes: > My understanding is that the entire operating system is delivered as > packages, and each package declares its copyright information in its > ‘/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGENAME/copyright’ document. This however covers only the *source* of the package, not the binary packages.