On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:56:31 +0100, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > Hello, > > While conducting routine reading, I saw that debhelper is released under > the GPL license. Since debhelper includes bits of itself in the package > it manages, does this mean that I cannot use debhelper for packaging > something that would be GPL-incompatible? I know that for fonts, one has > to make exceptions stating that PDF documents embedding GPL fonts are > not covered by the GPL, why should it be different for debhelper? > Files: examples/*, autoscripts/* Copyright: 1997-2008 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Licence: other These files are in the public domain. . Pedants who belive I cannot legally say that code I have written is in the public domain may consider them instead to be licensed as follows: . Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted under any circumstances. No warranty. What other bits of debhelper are you talking about? Cheers, Julien
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