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Re: DEP5 Copyright Question



Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:

> My sponsor requested me to add debian/copyright entries for files in the
> generated HTML documentation. The documentation is generated by Sphinx,
> and Sphinx adds some templates and js libraries which are then covered
> (at least that's what I believe) by the Sphinx license rather then the
> license of the documentation source files.

..and configure scripts have parts of autotools, Makefile.ins contain
code from automake, and even compiled binaries contain stuff that
originates from the compiler.

I don't think these should be documented in debian/copyright, that'd
lead to an endless list, in every single package in the archive.

The copyright file should - in my opinion- document the licenses of that
single package, not the licenses of itself, and everything else that is
used to build it

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