Re: dvipng: Version 1.8 package (NMU / New Maintainer)
On (16/09/06 21:34), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote:
> > * The debian/copyright file is lacking. There is no copyright
> > information, what is referred to as Copyright is in fact a License,
> > and not a copy of a license header from the package.
>
> I didn't follow. The debian/copyright file contains the copyright
> information which for this program is given the statement of the
> author that the program is available under the GPL. I must be missing
> something here ...
>
The debian/copyright file states
Copyright:
dvipng is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
version.
dvipng is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.
Whereas this is in fact the License of dvipng, though not one of the
license headers from the source code.
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
and the links from there.
James
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