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
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
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
> >>
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
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
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
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.
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