Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes: > > I will now go through my (or "my" where team-maintained) 90+ > > packages and make sure disclaimers are included. > > I don't think the disclaimer is part of the copyright license terms, > so doesn't need to be in ‘copyright’. You certainly need to preserve > it in the original upstream source files, of course! But I don't see > the need to duplicate it. Belay that. On further consideration, the disclaimer is not a *condition* of the license (it's not something that restricts the recipient's exercise of their rights in the work), but it is a *term* of the license (something that's part of the deal received by the recipient). Therefore it needs to be documented in ‘copyright’. IANAL and I may be using these terms incorrectly; but the reasoning seems sound to me. Hopefully any errors can be pointed out gleefully by others :-) -- \ “What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy | `\ river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.” —Jack | _o__) Handey | Ben Finney
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