"Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)" <sgevat...@ubuntu.cat> writes: > 2011/1/20 Craig Small <csm...@debian.org>:
>>> License: GPL-2 >>> See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. >> I believe it needs the full GPL-2 excerpt just like a normal copyright >> file has got. > I've had several packages with license text like this accepted. > Is there some reason to include the GPL header, other than it being > common practice? | 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's | source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you | conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate | copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the | notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; | and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License | along with the Program. The copy of the GPL-2 that we distribute in common-licenses may cover the disclaimer of warranty part and does cover the copy of the license part, but it doesn't cover the copyright notice and, to this specific point, "all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty." You should copy the notice from the source file into the debian/copyright file to be sure of complying with that point of the GPL. (As always with stuff like this, it's unlikely that anyone would actually sue over this sort of technical fiddly license point.) I suppose one could argue that "keeping intact" doesn't require duplicating in debian/copyright but just not removing the notice from the source code, but it's easy enough to copy the GPL notice, and I think better safe than sorry. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ei87i3pf....@windlord.stanford.edu
