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Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"



to, 2009-06-11 kello 11:47 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:
> Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:
> 
> > Would Debian benefit from being able to easily query for things like
> > "packages linking to OpenSSL, licensed under GPL, but without an
> > exception"?
> 
> Even with the DEP-5 copyright file, you can at most generate a candidate
> set that you still have to manually check.  There are packages with one
> GPL component that is not the component that's linked with OpenSSL.

That's very true. Getting the candidate set should be much easier with a
structured copyright file, though, as far as I can see.



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