Hello, I have a question about how to write the debian/copyright file for packages which are distributed under the GPL.
Currently the debian/copyright file of chbg contains the paragraph
Chbg is copyrigthed by Ondrejicka Stefan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). It is
license under the GPL. On Debian systems, the complete text of the
GNU General Public License can be found in the
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL file.
This is there to satisfy the requirement of policy section 12.5:
Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its
copyright and distribution license in the file
/usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file must neither be
compressed nor be a symbolic link.
[...]
Packages distributed under the [...] GNU GPL [...], should refer to
the files [...] /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, [...]
respectively, rather than quoting them in the copyright file.
Recently Justin Pryzby filed bug #290087 against chbg, claiming that
the debian/copyright file should instead contain "the 3 paragraphs as
found in /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/native/copyright", which turn out
to be
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307, USA.
My questions:
1) Is it required to include the above three paragraphs into the
debian/copyright file?
2) In case it is not required, is it for some other reason preferable
to include them?
Thank you very much in advance,
Jochen
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