On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:55:38 +0200 Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> wrote: > Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <rodrigo@nul-unu.com> (18/08/2007): > > My upstream's copyright statements in source files contain the old FSF > > mailing address. I will contact them about this problem but, while > > they react should I > > > > a) Faithfully reproduce their copyright statement in the package's > > debian/copyright and give wrong information to users, or > > > > b) Use the current address, at the cost of not using upstream's > > licence statement verbatim. > > b) I agree. debian/copyright should use the current FSF address. A useful tool in this situation is 'licencecheck -r .' - part of the devscripts package. Thankfully, with GPL v3, the mailing address has been replaced by a URL so this problem will only persist for code that does not migrate. (Just uploading my first GPL v3 package - first as in my own upstream.) BTW: the entire GPLv3 licence needs to be included in debian/copyright until such time as it appears in /usr/share/common-licences and it's quite a bloat - it adds 10k to the download size of my packages! When the entire package is only 44kb, it's a bit annoying. :-( -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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