Re: Bug#210779: libtunepimp1: give me the license

[Mathieu Roy <yeupou@gnu.org>]

John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> a tapoté :

> I wrote:
> > The GPL says:
> > 
> > ...give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along
> > with the Program.
> > 
> > If I do not include the text of the GPL in my packages users who download
> > debs will not receive copies of the license along with the program.
> 
> Mathieu Roy writes:
> > Please, take a look at the following
> > <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile>
> 
> I have long since done so.  I do not quote the GPL in the copyright file:
> that would be silly.  I do include the upstream COPYING file or equivalent.
> If that is a policy violation, so be it.  I am not going to remove the
> author's license in order to save a few bytes.
> 
> I am author as well as maintainer of two of my packages.  As author, I
> expect Debian to comply with my license by including the text of my license
> in the debs.

Hum, I think there is misunderstanding. The GPL requires, from someone
who distribute GPLed software, to provide a copy of the GPL License.

     "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
      along with this program"

But it does not require to provide a copy per package shipped. When
you shipped 900 GPLed packages, you're not forced to provide more than
one copy of the GPL.

So Debian comply with your license by making sure that _one_ copy of
the GPL is in Debian, not by "including the text of [the] license in the
debs".

And Debian do that. Try the following 

dpkg --listfiles base-files



Regards,

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