Re: License help needed (nvi 1.81.6-3)
Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> writes:
> a. dist/ltmain.sh is a generated file and so I think it need not
> be described in debian/copyright separately. That file says:
>
> # As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
> # distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
> # configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
> # the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
People generally don't mention the Autotools files in debian/copyright,
but I think that's more a matter of convenience and because they have
well-known and non-problematic licenses. Since we're distributing them,
to be fully and formally correct, we should probably document the license
status. (Not that I expect many people to go to the effort, but I do do
so when I have time for my packages.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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