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



Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:
> to, 2009-06-11 kello 11:47 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:

>> 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.

I agree that it will at least be easier.  Lintian does an okay job with
pure-text heuristics, though.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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