Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues
On Fri, Aug 13 2010, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 05:10:11PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Craig Small wrote:
>
>> > What are these benefits?
>
>> The major important bits are that people who are basing distributions
>> on Debian or are using Debian in the enterprise or embedded
>> environments can more easily determine the set of licences that they
>> need to audit for compliance purposes and due dilligence. Debian will
>> also know better what licences we are distributing in main, and can
>> possibly track issues where we are unable to ship specific
>> derivative works.
>
> In order to truly deliver on this we'd need the entire distro to be
> converted to DEP5 format but elsewhere in the thread it was stated that
> this is not a goal.
Also, this goal only requires one to list the licenses under
which the package sources are delivered, but need not say anything
about which _files_ are under which license (and currently, there is no
requirement to list any source files in copyright either, so listing
the files is an additional requirement).
manoj
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