Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
I don't see the logical justification for this statement. Our compliance
with the GPL does not rely on considering source and binary packages as a
single entity. The GPL explicitly permits us to treat them as two
separate entities and distribute the source separately (which is what we
do).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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