Licence question (suprise!)

2004-01-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, See bug 211644 for context. Currently, the patch to ssh (which is a substantial piece of work) is released under the GPL. OpenSSL is apparantly not under the "integral part of the system" exception, so there is a conflict between my GPL patch, and the OpenSSL licence. Can I just say "...distr

Copyright of debian/*

2021-01-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I have noticed some packages using the newer machine-readable copyright format, but not specifying any copyright for debian/* To give an example based on the docs[1] Files: * Copyright: 1975-2010 Ulla Upstream License: GPL-2+ Files: docs/*.1 Copyright: 2010 Manuela Manpager License: GPL-

Re: Copyright of debian/*

2021-01-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, David Prévot writes: > Le 02/01/2021 à 11:30, Matthew Vernon a écrit : > >> I have noticed some packages using the newer machine-readable >> copyright format, but not specifying any copyright for debian/* > > FWIW, I do that in most of the (simple) packages I’m maint