Hello debian-legal, [please keep debian-ruby in Cc: on responses] Cédric Boutillier escreveu isso aí: > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 02:00:58PM -0700, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > I could not found in the sources where did you get the upstream > > copyright info you put in debian/copyright. the copyright notice in > > debian/copyright must be (mostly) copied verbatim from upstreams > > sources. > > The information is present in the gem file. In the repository on github, > there is a file LICENCE, starting with the following lines: > > ttfunk is copyrighted free software produced by Gregory Brown along with > community contributions. See git log for authorship information. > > Licensing terms follow (License of Ruby): > > You can redistribute Prawn and/or modify it under either the terms of > the GPLv2 > or GPLv3 (see GPLv2 and GPLv3 files), or the conditions below: > > I checked out the repo and written down the names of all the authors of > the commits. Is it the thing to do when such a wording is used about the > authorship? Should I ask upstream to ship this LICENSE file within the > ruby gem? I think the best is to ask upstream to distribute that LICENCE file in the .gem, and to reproduce that original copyright notice verbatim (i.e. not list data from the git repository). -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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