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Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses



Le Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:52:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> 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).

After reading again point 3 a) of the GPL v1 and v2, I see that I probably
misunderstood what "medium customarily used for software interchange"
meant.  Sorry for the noise.

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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