On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Christian Kurz wrote: > On [15/12/03 1:59], Peter Palfrader wrote: > > | Authors: Donald Duck, Daisy Duck > > | > > | Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 Donald Duck > > | 2000, 2002 Daisy Duck > > | > > | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > [...] > > | License, version 2, can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. > > Your example only covers the situation where you have an license like > the GPL, that is also available in /usr/share/common-licenses. But I'm > missing here some information on how to write copyright files if the > license isn't available in that directory, if the licenses was written > by the author from a scratch or if the license just says "Public > domain." Copy the copyright statement and license information to your copyright file in verbatim. > > Also read Andrew Suffield's mail on what you should do when writing a > > copyright file: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200312/msg00194.html > > Which also doesn't help anybody in the situations that I described > above. If you really want to be helpful and have people check and verify > the copyrigh file in their packages, then please provide not only the > easiest example that is possible (GPL), but also explain other > situations or places where people can ask for help. The debian-legal list certainly is willing to help. Hence the mail-followup-to header was set to this list. Andrew's mail did describe it: | You need to find the bit which says "This program is distributable | under (license X|the following license:)". [..] | Copy that statement _verbatim_ into the copyright file. I suggest you reread it again. > > Please do check that your packages' copyright files are ok, a large > > percentage is not. > > And how much work would it have been for you, having read several > copyright files as it seems, to at least name the ones you found that > aren't correct? Because I only checked a hundred or so and over 30 of them were broken. My favorite example so far is fakeroot, but alsa-utils, autotools-dev, bash, bison, busybox-static, ccache, dbs, gq - to only name a few - also have bad copyright files. Peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred. | : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palfrader.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/
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