Am Montag, 4. Dezember 2006 20:04 schrieb Linas Žvirblis: > Dennis Schridde wrote: > > How do other packages in Debian handle the install-sh file which comes > > under the X11 license as you told me a while ago? > > This one is fine. X11 is GPL compatible license. It means that you can > relicense your modified copy under the GPL at any time. Although it > makes little sense, as this is a generated file, and will ignore your > changes anyway. > > > Do they all have to add a notice? > > No, no notice is needed. > > > Or did they not ship that file? > > Yes, they do not ship it. But for a different reason. > > As it is a generated file, it is updated at every build. It simply makes > no sense to ship it, or keep it on version control systems for that > matter. The same goes for other any other file generated by autotools. > > I had a quick look at the SVN trunk of Warzone 2100 and I did not see > any such files, so everything seems to be just fine. Before release I ran ./autogen.sh, which (besides version checks) runs autoconf,automake and similar tools. Should I not do that? Because usually packages don't require people to run ./autogen.sh or similar...
--Dennis
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