Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses
Le Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:10:17PM -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit :
>
> Succinctly, the copyright file itself is irrelevant in the source
> package since the upstream source should have all of that information
> already, and at least for the GPL you can distribute source packages
> as is. Thus, the issue is reduced to the need for full license texts
> only in all binary packages.
Hi all,
given that the source and binary packages are considered a single entity --
otherwise we would be violating the GPLs v1 and v2 -- the Debian copyright file
is not necessary from a strictly legal point of view.
It is therefore a facility to our infrastructure and a service to our users,
and it is up to us as a project to decide its contents. One unwritten rule is
that it has to contain all the necessary information for the FTP team to review
the package. A first step in order to lift the requirement to include a verbatim
copy of all licenses that are not distributed in /usr/share/common-licenses
would be to ask the FTP team their opinion on that matter.
Cheers,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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