Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> writes: > How is the license of a binary Debian package determined? > > The file debian/copyright only contains the license of the sources;
Not true. The ‘debian/copyright’ file is installed by each binary package ‘foopackage’ as the ‘/usr/share/doc/foopackage/copyright’ file, and constitutes the copyright information for that binary package. > however the binary license may differ -- f.e. when a BSD source is > linked to a GPL library. Also there is usually more than one license > used in the sources. Right, so the source package should have a ‘debian/copyright’ which specifies copyright information for all binary packages generated from that source. > Since Debian is a binary distribution Debian consists of both source and binary packages equally, so I don't know what you are characterising there. > I am wondering if there is any canonical way to get the license of a > (binary) package? The binary package ‘foopackage’, once installed, has its copyright information at ‘/usr/share/doc/foopackage/copyright’. -- \ “I bought some batteries, but they weren't included; so I had | `\ to buy them again.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/854mu26dn7....@benfinney.id.au
