Re: Goals of debian/copyright
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:56:57PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> I think we're getting bogged down in the debian/copyright discussion,
> and I'm starting to think that some enumeration of what we need
> debian/copyright for would help us figure out what it should actually
> contain.
>
> I've listed the things that I remember from the relevant threads (and
> my personal recollection):
>
> 1) DFSG Free licensing of all parts distributed by Debian in main
>
> 2) License compatibility (both intra-work and inter-work)
>
> 3) Satisfy licence requirements in binary .debs
More than that, licensing information should be about the binary files,
not the source files.
Mike
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