[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files



Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:

Hi,

> Who cares that file foo.c is licensed under GPL and bar.c under BSD?
> People that want to take the source and use it elsewhere. These people
> are obviously looking at the sources, and don't really need
> debian/copyright information.

Let's add that if you are reusing code, you have to do your own
assessment anyway. Of course you can decide to trust debian/copyright,
but there's no guarantee and you're taking the risk.

JB.

-- 
 Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <jblache@debian.org> 
 
 Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 
 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 


Reply to: