Bug#1013424: RFS: isochron/0.9~rc4-1 [ITP] -- Tool for Time Sensitive Networking testing
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:34:24AM +0200, Bastian Germann wrote:
> Am 14.07.22 um 23:30 schrieb Vladimir Oltean:
> > > frer/*.sh are BSD-3-clause licensed. Please add the license to d/copyright.
> >
> > Interestingly, frer/*.sh are not intended to be distributed by the
> > Debian package. The repository grew from a bunch of shell scripts to
> > being dominated by a C program which largely incorporated what used to
> > be written in bash and python, and what's in the "frer" folder is what's
> > left of that. However these are not of interest to the Debian audience.
> > I think that the debian package only needs to state the copyright of
> > files that actually contribute to the software being distributed,
> > case in which I don't need to add BSD as a license, am I right?
>
> From a legal perspective that would be okay. But the Debian Policy requires that
> all distribution licenses of the source package are included in d/copyright, no
> matter if they are included in the binary package.
>
> The alternative is excluding the files from the origtargz but that should not be
> done in this case.
>
> > > While you might be the author of all the NXP copyrighted files, the file headers say "Copyright 2019-2021 NXP".
> > > We are more interested in Copyright statements than authorship because that is what some licenses require to reproduce.
> > >
> > > Please untag moreinfo from this bug when you have changed the copyright file accordingly.
> >
> > Ok, so the change I need to make is
> > s/2019-2021 Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>/2019-2021 NXP/,
> > right?
>
> Exactly.
Updated the salsa git repository, reuploaded to mentors and removed the moreinfo tag, thanks.
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