Hi: The other day I was packaging Module::CPANTS::Analyse, a Perl module. As part of its tests, it includes a bunch of other distributions in gzipped tarball format. However, as these included tarballs are actually those of other distributions, their copyright is different. Sure, that's fine.
So I have a bunch of copyright statements for each .tar.gz file. My question becomes: what happens when a file *inside* the tar.gz has a different copyright than the rest of the package? For example, in the Perl world, many distributions include ppport.h (Perl/Pollution/Portability -- it's to provide backward compatibility for the XS macros). However, as it is a file generated by another distribution (Devel::PPPort), its copyright is different than the rest of the distribution. However, Files: doesn't have sufficient granularity to handle this, since it's a file within a gzipped tarball. (I should note that I think the point is to leave it as a tarball and not simply extract it, because the Module::CPANTS::Analyse program needs to test its ability to decompress the archive and peek inside). Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
