On 19-Sep-2014, Charles Plessy wrote: > I have a package where the machine-readable copyright file has the > following licence field in its header. > > License: GPL-2 and MIT and GPL-3+ with runtime exception and zlib > BEDTools combines source code under GPL-2, LGPL-2.1 and MIT licenses, and > links to libc6, libgcc, libstdc++ and zlib1g. Why put that paragraph in the header? Is it not superfluous, since you will also need to repeat that license information in the “files” paragraphs? > The alternative would be to add standalone paragraphs for these > licenses, but this would be a lot of “boilerplate” text in the > copyright files… I don't understand how that would change. Either the license text is already in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’, or it needs to appear in each package's ‘debian/copyright’ in full. -- \ “Holy polar ice sheet, Batman!” —Robin | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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