Re: DEP-5 (copyright file format) ... gap with practice
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> DEP-5 as defined in http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ does not have any
> clause allowing us to skip license entries for certain class of files.
>
> In practice, many packages lack entries for autotools generated files
> which come with very permissive license with mostly identical but not
> quite the same copyright phrases which reqire us to quote them
> separately.
>
> I am talking about autotools files such as:
> PERMISSIVE
> * */Makefile.in
> * m4/*.m4
> * configure
> * INSTALL
> * aclocal.m4
> GPL-2.0+ with autoconf exception
> * compile
> * depcomp
> * missing
> * py-compile
> * test-driver
> * m4/introspection.m4
> * m4/intltool.m4
> GPL-2.0+ with libtool exception
> * ltmain.sh
> GPL-3.0+ with autoconf exception
> * config.sub
> * config.guess
> MIT
> * install-sh
You could always use the Files-Excluded field to make uscan remove
those files from the upstream tarball, then use dh-autoreconf (or
symlinks for e.g. config.sub and config.guess) to recover them at
build time.
Best wishes,
Mike
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