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Re: Applying the terms of GPL to your program



On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:40:07 +0100 Matthew Johnson wrote:

> On Sat Apr 05 10:00, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
[...]
> > Yes, including /usr/share/common-licenses in the 'license blurb' text
> > itself is valid?
> 
> This is what I meant. As long as the text in debian/rules unambiguously
> declares the licence of the program, it doesn't matter what it is.

Mmmmh, Policy[1] seems to require a verbatim copy of the copyright and
distribution license.

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile


My usual disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP.

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