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Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?



Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:

> IANAL, but it seems pretty clear to me that this is not the case, at
> least for source packages (see 4.c), for binary packages we also have to
> distribute any associated NOTICE files (see 4.d, but I guess we violate
> this rule quite a lot), which I would guess usually contain copyright
> information.

> https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

I just found a few packages under Apache 2.0 that didn't distribute the
NOTICE file.  It turned out that the same information was in
debian/copyright, but that may not be the case in the future.

I'll file a wishlist bug against Lintian to check for a NOTICE file in
packages that say they're under Apache 2.0 and warn if it's not included
in the binary package.

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


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