On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@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 are *generated* during execution of > debian/rules (e.g. rendered documentation) do not need to be included in > the copyright file? Auto-generated files can only have the copyright of whatever creative content is provided by a human writer (not the copyright of the tools used in generation). The documentation presumably comes from some kind of source files contained in the source package and presents that same data in a different format. The copyright of the original data is unaffected (assuming it complies with DFSG), the generated content is basically the distribution of a modified form of the source itself and hence under the same licence as the source itself. Declaring the copyright of the source covers any reformatting of the source which occurs during the building/packaging/distribution process. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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