Re: DEP-5 (copyright file format) ... gap with practice
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:31:02PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > 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,
Too much work (at least when you are not repacking the tarball for other
reasons) for absolutely no gain.
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WBR, wRAR
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