On 27 Apr 2006 09:57:11 -0400 Michael Poole wrote:
> Wesley J. Landaker writes:
[...]
> > But maybe it would be good to add this more specifically into the
> > debian/copyright file:
> >
> > Original software, Copyright 200x Upstream Author
> > Upstream license text
> > +
> > +Debian packaging, Copyright 200x Package Maintainer
> > + Packaging license text
> >
> > What do other folks think?
>
> Many packages already have notices to that effect. Partial results
> from a quick grep: xutils and a lot of other XSF packages, openssh,
> openoffice.org packages, and mailcrypt. It's probably worth a best
> practices entry in developers-reference.
I think that this debian-devel-announce message (from Joerg Jaspert)
can be useful:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
Relevant quote:
| - Ideally you include a license statement for your Debian packaging
| also.
Hope this helps.
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