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Bug#884006: copyright-format: Documenting copyrights not in source package but in binary package



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Dear Yao,

On Sun, Dec 10 2017, Yao Wei (魏銘廷) wrote:

> One of the files inside Package A is generated during build time.
> However, the generation of the file requires Package B which has
> different copyright, and the generated file in Package A is basically
> a format conversion of the file in Package B, and the copyright needs
> to be retained per license of Package B.  It could be copyright
> violation of Package B if copyright status and requirements is not
> fulfilled in Package A and we redistribute Package A.
>
> I would suggest a tag "Files-Binary" in copyright-format to fulfill
> this situation.

What would the definition of this field be?  It is not clear from your
example.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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