>On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:24:26PM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: ... >If the project is relatively fast moving and vdrift is >in etch, it might be a good idea to package it with the tarball updated >to reflect the licence change for etch r1 whenever that occurs and ask >for it to be put into stable-proposed-updates. This would cover all >bases: anyone who had got vdrift from r0 would be made aware: anyone >who installed from r1 onwards would automatically get the changed >licence terms. The concerned tarball is not in Etch. >Any lenny / sid package would just be packaged with the new licence. > >> My question is: in the debian/copyright, is it possible to refere to a >> license that is on a website or in an archived mailing list. >> >I don't think that's adequate, unfortunately. What if I install from >CD and have no 'Net access? Upstream published an errata on the website. The don't have a gpg key to sign the post: http://vdrift.net/article.php/license-change-2007-03-23-release I will copy the post in the debian/changelog with a link to the website. Is it enough? Best regards, Gonéri
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