On Sat, 03 Nov 2012, Bart Martens wrote: > I understand "its copyright information and distribution license(s)" as > including all licenses, so that the user can still choose between the > alternative licenses. The packager should not choose for the user.
Sometimes we have to. The source may be distributed with license choices we cannot use for the binary packages, because of restrictions caused by linking to libraries, or by the DFSG. IMO, debian/copyright should reflect the licenses being used to distribute the binary and source packages *by Debian*. This is a somewhat uncommon case, though. And I don't think many of us are updating "GPLv2 or later" licenses to GPLv3 in debian/copyright when linking to something ends up resulting in a GPLv3 application, for example. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121103161422.ga32...@khazad-dum.debian.net
