copyright file
I have a question about how I am supposed to handle upstream's files related
to copyrights and distribution. They provide a README file that has the
actual copyright notice, i.e., "Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 James Clark,
1999 Matthias Clasen", and it refers to the COPYING file for permissions to
copy. COPYING is identical to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. There is the
required additional information about the Debian package, i.e., the copyright
for the Debian specific code, where the source can be obtained, etc., in
debian/copyright.Debian.
Until recently the entire COPYING file was included, but lintian started
complaining about a copy of the GPL being part of the package.
Policy says that "Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its
copyright and distribution license in the file
`/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright'. This file must neither be compressed
nor be a symbolic link." It appears to me that README is the copyright and
COPYING is the distribution license, so it appears to me I need to put the
following in debian/copyright:
1) the contents of README
2) a note which refers to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
3) the contents of debian/copyright.Debian
Correct?
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Neil Roeth
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