[add debian-devel back to cc] > Regarding _declaring_ appropriate DEP5 hints, with machine-readable DEP5 = > copyright format you can declare a license in the _header_ section to = > indicate the effective license caused by "infection" of indivifual parts = > on the whole of the binary product.
Almost sufficent, but not general enough. Just an idea: new field in Package: stanza in d/control: `Effective-License', which specify which terms you must comply with if you use this library. In my case, I would leave debian/copyright alone, and add `Effective-License: GPL-2+' to libghc-missingh-dev. And add rule, that Effective-License defaults to License in header, which defaults to the most strict of licenses of individual files. Add tool, that implement this rule. Hmm, it is complicated. Thoughts? > Also note that DEP5 format is only optional, so such automated = > checks, even if/when existing, would not cover Debian as a whole. Is there no plans to push it into policy? -- Accept: text/plain, text/x-diff Accept-Language: eo,en,ru X-Keep-In-CC: yes X-Web-Site: sinsekvu.github.io
