On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:09:29PM +0300, Pavel 'Blaze' Vinogradov wrote:
> Package: gentoo
> Version: 0.11.55-1.1
> Tags: patch
> Severity: minor
>
> Accorting to
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
> debian/copyright file must conform to:
>
> - Its not enough to have the following two-liner:
> | On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
> | can be found in the `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' file.
>
> There are license headers, like the one used for GPL in the example below,
> you
> should use those.
Actually, the original author of the software never included those
license headers. I actually pasted his exact sentences from the README,
which has this:
LICENSING
This software is Copyright (c) 1998-2002 by Emil Brink.
You are free to distribute this software under the terms
of the GNU General Public License, version 2. You should have
received a copy of this license together with the software (in a
file called COPYING). If not, and you have web access, check
<http://www.gnu.org/>.
It is important to realize that this software comes
without ANY form of warranty.
So, the copyright file is correct, even if the upstream author's style
may not be.
> - Ideally you include a license statement for your Debian packaging
> also.
I went with the implicit option - using the same licence as the software
that is being patched (packaged).
Can I close the bug?
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