Re: Derivative works marked as such

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  In the neverending saga of copyright reading for the purposes of the
>  new maintainer process I found this in c2man:
> 
>  | This version of c2man is copyright, but may be freely redistributed
>  | and modified so long as:
>  | 
>  | 1. The names of all contributing authors remain on the documentation,
>  | 2. All derivative works are clearly documented as such,
>  | 3. All derivative works remain freely redistributable under the same
>  |    conditions.
> 
>  what has to be done to meet point 2?  Is this:
> 
>  | This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of Graham Stoney's
>  | mechanized man page generator.
> 
>  at the start of README.Debian enough?  IMO, yes, but I'd like to have a
>  second opinion.

You should probably also include that phrase in the description of the
package.  However, it is best to ask the original author what they
think.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu


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