Bug#883966: debian-policy: please add MIT/Expat to common licenses
Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> writes:
> I don't want to open another can of worms yet but I believe even if
> someone changed this phrase and we simply stated MIT as license in
> debian/copyright we still wouldn't violate any law because
> debian/copyright is something Debian specific which we impose on
> ourselves and not required by the license terms itself. The license
> simply requires:
> "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
> in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."
> This is always satisfied as long as you don't remove the license from
> the original file.
The binaries built from the source code are a "substantial portion of the
Software." We have to include the license and copyright statement with
the binaries, since they're a derivative work, and those packages don't
contain the source code and the original license notices.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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