Re: Question about licenses

2012-01-15 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 14.01.2012 19:34, schrieb fre...@free.fr: When the file is distributed in the source package, yes, then it needs to be covered in debian/copyright. It does not matter whether this bit of code is for Windows or Linux. Whether it is being distributed, that matters. Of course, your

Question about licenses

2012-01-14 Thread fred0a
Hello, I would like to know if we must include licenses that are not part of Linux code, that come with the original tarball. Example: a file in upstream source is named `windows_audio_codec.cpp`, the code from this file is specific for MS Windows and the license only allows to use the file

Re: Question about licenses

2012-01-14 Thread Teus Benschop
On 01/14/2012 06:52 PM, fre...@free.fr wrote: I would like to know if we must include licenses that are not part of Linux code, that come with the original tarball. Example: a file in upstream source is named `windows_audio_codec.cpp`, the code from this file is specific for MS Windows and the

Re: Question about licenses

2012-01-14 Thread fred0a
When the file is distributed in the source package, yes, then it needs to be covered in debian/copyright. It does not matter whether this bit of code is for Windows or Linux. Whether it is being distributed, that matters. Of course, your package can leave this file out. Teus. Ok, thank you very