Bug#258972: tetex-base: License information for Debian-specific parts is missing in copyright file
Package: tetex-base
Version: 2.0.2-9
Severity: important
For the parts of our tetex-base/extra/doc packages that are not
present in the upstream sources, but have been added as
Debian-specific code, there is no information about the copyright (i.e
which Debian developer/user contributed which parts?) and license in
debian/copyright.
This is no good.
We should:
1. Identify all persons that have contributed significant parts of the
Debian-specific adaptations, put their names in the individual
files, and create corresponding Copyright entries in
debian/copyright.
2. Decide on a license under which we want to put the Debian-specific
code. I suggest to use the GPL, because it is also the license of
the teTeX distribution itself.
3. Once we've agreed on the license, everybody who know that he has
contributed code, or plans to do this in the future, should send a
signed mail to this bug that he puts his contribution under the
license.
4. For people that do not react, we will bug them a little, but if
they turn out to be unreachable (or unwilling), we should take out
the code and implement it newly.
Regards, Frank
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0-bunk-2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux alhambra 2.4.25 #1 Mit Feb 18 16:41:07 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.34 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii texinfo 4.6-0.bunk Documentation system for on-line i
ii ucf 1.06 Update Configuration File: preserv
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