Re: Synaptics touchpad driver

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:36:15PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> [Resent, the news2mail gateway has swallowed the article]
>> X Strike Force SVN Admin <branden@debian.org> wrote:
>>> Author: daniel
>>> Date: 2003-08-31 02:22:38 -0500 (Sun, 31 Aug 2003)
>>> New Revision: 464
>>[...]
>>>  * Add Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.11.3p11 (Closes: #204688):
>>>    + debian/patches/066_synaptics_driver_0.11.3p11.diff: new
>>>      - some modifications by me to declare symbols, etc, to make it build
>>>        properly under debug mode; remember to preserve these if you do a
>>>        version jump!
>>>    + debian/MANIFEST.*: updated for synaptics_drv.o
>>>    + debian/xserver-xfree86.install.*: install synaptics_drv.o
>> [...]

>> Wow, thanks. You'll also need to modify debian/copyright because the
>> synaptics driver is GPL.
 
> I looked at the copyright file, and decided no modification was
> needed. Branden?

Am I missing some importantant point? Including a piece of software
does not require listing its copyright in debian/copyright?
                cu andreas
>