Hello!
[Sat, 13 Sep 2003] Michał Politowski wrote:
> I may be wrong, so I think I'll refer to the debian-devel wisdom before
> a possible reopening.
Ropening is not your job!
> How do you define _package_'s copyright and license when the _package_
> contains parts distributed under different licenses?
The package's copyright is the upstream copyright.
If I add files with different licenses, I specify those licenses in
the repective files (if possible).
> > Damn! You are simply riping that part of the sentence from the file
> > without any hesitation? It's not even a full sentence!
>
> No it isn't...
You didn't quote a full sentence. If it wasn't a quote _and_ if you had
put a full stop after it, it might have been.
> ...but I don't think the rest of it adds anything to the argument.
> You probably mean "published by the Free Software Foundation", but why
> should I have to refer to external, overseas sources to see the text
> of the license?
All the packages that contain a manpage based on the template from debhelper
include that snippet. Go ahead and file RC-bugs...
Robert.
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