On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 03:08:26PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 09:38:04PM +0000, Mark Hymers wrote: > > I've therefore asked the DPL to get us legal advice on the minimum > > copyright information we should ship in debian/copyright. Once we get > > this, I propose we amend policy to be crystal clear about what we need > > (basically, what we can get away with[0]) and then all carry on. > > I think this needs to be a two-part question to the lawyer: what does > copyright law require, and what does the GPLv3 require. I believe they are > not the same. >
And then, of course, there are the other dozens of licenses. Some of them (such as the BSD license in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD) very clearly require us to list copyright holders somewhere in the binary packages. Some don't have this requirement in the license. Some are less clear. stew
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