On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:53:30PM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > I am working on updating the Twiki debian package, and my sponsor (Ardo) > and I have hit a problem that we are unsure how to resolve. > I am unhappy with the idea of re-naming the upstream license.txt to > copyright and then editing it to link to the common-licenses GPL file. > This is due to the last part of the second paragraph - > "Any redistribution of TWiki or it's clones > MUST contain this license.txt file UNMODIFIED." You could ask upstream for clarification; it may be that you only need to include the unmodified file with the source package (which you would do anyway), and that properly editing it for inclusion in the copyright file is ok. Otherwise, the worst case is that you need to include license.txt /somewhere/ in the binary package -- though not in /u/s/d/<package>/copyright, which we must be able to append information to as needed. If the upstream is on vacation for a few weeks and you think this needs to be resolved before then, the latter is probably the correct interim solution. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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