Re: after a long thread and a clarification with O'Reilly ...
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:48:02AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:15:47AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > > However, they have to make the note publicaly available before the
> > > package is put together, because one must be able to check the license
> > > conditions without having to download the package. Where/when do they
> > > intend to make the note available?
> >
> > I don't know about that. We've had lots of packages for which license
> > clarification was added to the debian/copyright files.
>
> I recently proposed to sponsor someone. He had written in the
> copyright file of his package that the license was GPL but I couldn't
> find any copyright notice in both the upstream tarball and the
> website. I simply refused to upload any package until I got the
> copyright notice within the upstream tarball.
You could have tried contacting the upstream author for confirmation or
something such.
Anyway, there is a big difference between package done by non debian
maintainers and packages done by us.
I suppose we can trust our own enough that they will not add spurious
copyright files, or do we ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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