mezgani ali wrote: > Benoît, i've received a message from upstream, telling that the application > is totally free, without any restriction for modification or redistribution. > in the fact, i insert message text in the copyright file. > > Please take a look
I've seen that, but they need to make that perfectly clear in the license header of each file in the tarball. An email sent to you and reproduced in the debian/copyright file is not enough. It is crucial that they fix this _upstream_, you can't simply add a note in the debian packaging about that. And again, if they want to make sure that the license they're using is free, they should use one of the well known free software licenses such as the 3-clause BSD or the Expat license; if that's still too restrictive for their taste, they could use a public domain license such as CC0. And please, if you're discussing these licensing issues with upstream, don't forget to also remind them about including a copy of the GPL along with the source; it _is_ a license violation not to do so. Thanks. -- Benoît Knecht -- 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/20110804185400.gd3...@marvin.lan
