Hello debian-legal, I was wondering about the best practises for an upstream project concerning their LICENSE/COPYING files (especially with widespread licenses). The point is about the appendix section (after the end of terms and conditions) which explains how common license terms must be applied and how the copyright holder have to be updated. 1. Could you confirm that these files must *always* be kept untouched by upstream authors (as I suppose now after some discussions) ? 2. Is the appendix section must/should/may be present ? Example: - the `Gnomovision` example in GPL-2 file 3. Is there any step to review for a Debian maintainer with specific content like: Examples: - blank copyright line¹ often found in LICENSES files - GPL-2 'any-later-version' option² in source code notices Perhaps debian-legal@ has remarks/recommendation to share. It might help some newcomers like me. Thanks, ¹ copyright line is often enclosed in brackets in LICENSE file as: Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] (from Apache-2.0) ² «... the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.» -- Julien JEHANNET LOGILAB, Paris (France)
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