Markus Koschany <a...@debian.org> writes: > Am 12.12.2017 um 03:39 schrieb Russ Allbery:
>> The binaries built from the source code are a "substantial portion of >> the Software." We have to include the license and copyright statement >> with the binaries, since they're a derivative work, and those packages >> don't contain the source code and the original license notices. > We always distribute the source code along with the binary packages. This isn't true: we produce install media that contains only the binary packages and not the source. > This condition would still be satisfied. If it works for Red Hat / > Fedora it should work for Debian too. This isn't the rule we've followed in the past, and this is well outside the scope of the Policy team to decide. We would need a ruling from the relevant delegate (ftpmaster, or DPL plus outside legal counsel) to make this change, I think. In the meantime, Policy should continue to be written assuming the current rule: we do not treat distribution of the source alongside binary packages as satisfying requirements to include the license, and every binary package has to be accompanied by its license or a reference to common-licenses (because base-files can be assumed to be installed or easily installable on every system on which any Debian package is installed). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
