Le Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 05:35:00PM +0100, Ole Streicher a écrit : > > I asked this question already some months ago in debian-mentors, but > didn't get an answer: > > How is the license of a binary Debian package determined? > > The file debian/copyright only contains the license of the sources; > 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.
Hi Ole, in some packages I maintain, I put such information in the debian/copyright file (in the License field of the header, as I am using the machine-readable format). However, it is not canonical, nor automated. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20141113223947.ga23...@falafel.plessy.net
