Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> 2) The non-free files that we remove from the upstream sources.
Is mailing upstreams or writing debian/rules get-orig-source really so
problematic that you feel this is needed? The former is usually very
little work (and should be preferred) and the latter is usually only
slightly more. Such files waste space in upstream tarballs so they
probably would appreciate being notified about that. Once they learn
about autotools 'make dist' / 'make distcheck' they can let autotools
make the tarballs to prevent sourceless Windows binaries from being
accidentally added to them.
--
bye,
pabs
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