Re: after a long thread and a clarification with O'Reilly ...
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:47:19AM +0100, Sven wrote:
>
> > > But the content of the debian package is obtained from the website.
> > > (IIRC the source of the book is not available).
> > > The copyright notice of the debian package is related to what has
> > > been downloaded isn't? No matter the printed version has the notice
> > > or not.
> >
> > No, the way it is obtained is not important, from the time the notice is
> > added, then it applies.
> >
> > That said, if you now get the stuff from the debian package, the note appli
> es.
>
> However, they have to make the note publicaly available before the
> package is put together, because one must be able to check the license
> conditions without having to download the package. Where/when do they
> intend to make the note available?
I don't know about that. We've had lots of packages for which license
clarification was added to the debian/copyright files.
Peter
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