Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> writes: > I am not aware of any update on the matter: I suppose the determination > of the effective licenses of binary packages is still something to be > done manually. > > I hope this answers Ole's question, although maybe in a disappointing > way...
I am not sure if this is legally so simple: As far as I understand licensing, it is the way to allow others to use the product (sorry for unprofessional wording here; I am not at all a specialist in that). That means, that as long as we don't allow someone to use a binary package, he is neither allowed to copy it, nor to use it in any way. We (Debian) must grant him some rights. Currently, I don't see that we do that anywhere. debian/copyright refers only to sources, not to binaries. Also, the license of the binary is not (always) an unambigious result of the source packages: a BSD only licensed source file may also end up in a GPL licensed binary. or the binary of a GPL-2+ source could itseld licensed as GPL-3+. Generally, Debian may add additional restrictions to a binary, as long as they are conform to the source license(s) and the DFSG. My personal understanding of Debian liberalism is that we don't, but I couldn't find a definitive statement for that. So, I think, of we offer binary packages, we must clearly define the conditions of this offer Otherwise the offer is not (legally) valid. Or am I too naive here? Best regards Ole -- 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/87tx22p51v....@news.ole.ath.cx
