Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I therefore would like your opinions about this proposal, its > shortcomings, and a strategy to implement it quickly and as widely as > possible.
It overall seems reasonable to me, although it surfaces other issues that we've been somewhat ignoring. For example, with a format for clearly expressing copyrights that vary per file, it raises the question if we should be noting such things. Most packages that use Autoconf and friends have files in the distribution (the generated configure and the like) covered by a different license and copyright than the rest of the distribution, and for the most part people are not noting this in debian/copyright. I'd like to see a field added to explain any repackaging of the upstream source that was done, or an explicit statement that this should go into the second and subsequent lines of the Source field, since I think debian/copyright is the appropriate location for such information. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
