On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 08:46:49AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
The firmware-nonfree source package has files under many different licenses, so there is no catch-all '*' pattern in debian/copyright. As a result, lintian complains: W: firmware-nonfree source: file-without-copyright-information Apache-2 [debian/copyright]You could work around it by adding a list of all these license files to debian/copyright: Files: Apache-2 GPL-2 ... Copyright: various License: license-text These are the licence texts themselves.
Strictly speaking, this defeats the purpose of the DEP5 format and also makes it clear that the Policy is not followed.
I have no idea who holds the copyright to the licenses themselves and what the License on the license is....
Yet the Policy 2.3 requires you to know and specify this. We just normally ignore this. -- WBR, wRAR
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