On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 04:42:20PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Hi, Hi Martin, > I am doing a rewrite of the equivs package, and have two questions. > > The package itself is GPLed, and I want to include some code from > other GPLed packages (mainly the doc-base parser). Now I want to give > the doc-base authors proper credit. > > What is the best way to do so? Include an entry in the copyright file, > in the source, somewhere else? I would include a notice in the source and in the copyright/README-file. If there is a manpage and the imported code makes up some important parts of the program I would also mention it in the AUTHORS section of the manpage. > To give proper advice when to use what field: does apt-get > automatically load packages in Recommends like it does for Depends ? > It doesn't do this for SUggests I assume. AFAIK it does not download recommended packages. > Ciao, > Martin cu Torsten
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