Re: Missing licenses in upstream source files
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:51:25AM +0100, Dominik Smatana wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thank you for answers.. I'll contact upstream author.
>
> One more "license-newbie" question:
>
> In some upstream source files there is just one single line comment at
> beginning:
>
> // Please see included LICENSE.TXT
>
> licensecheck says "UNKNOWN" of course...
>
> Is such reference to external file sufficient for source files to be
> packed for Debian?
>
> Or should they begin with FULL license included inside?
Did you ever see the full text of the GPL (any version) at the top of a
source file? A reference to the licence is enough, so long as the
referenced file really is included. I would recommend to upstream that
they include a copyright statement (year and owner) in each file, though.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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