Ian Jackson wrote: > We have been adopting the practice of removing such things from the > source tarballs too. Personally I think this is a waste of our time, > unless the files are very large or there is some other reason why > leaving them in is especially harmful. > > One reason why it might be especially harmful is if the upstream > licence is GPL: in that case, for files which are provided without > source we have no licence to distribute at all so we are required by > copyright law to remove them. > > Is this the case here ?
Note, this thread is quite old now. We ended up removing them because they appeared to be extracts from larger documents which we had no licence info for. -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1903 236872 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Debian Developer | +44(0)7799 143369 | 0x1B3045CE There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that know binary, and those that don't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
