El 23/9/22 a las 11:34, Bastian Germann escribió:
Source: diffutils
Severity: important
Version: 1:3.8-1
Hi,
diffutils has an incomplete copyright file. At least LGPL-2.1+ and
GPL-2+ licenses are missing even though they are applicable to some
files. While they can be distributed as GPL-3+, it is not the correct
license for those files to record in d/copyright.
I have attached a d/copyright file in the machine-readable format for v3.8.
Thanks for the report and the revised file.
I have a lot of copyright files to convert in other packages, so there
are a few things I still don't understand in full. Hope you don't mind
if I ask you about them.
For example, your proposed copyright file has this:
Files: *Makefile.in
I guess this means "anything including the 'Makefile.in' string, which
includes a file called Makefile.in at any directory depth but also
something called this-is-not-really-a-Makefile.in-file".
The documentation about this I'm reading:
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
suggests */Makefile.in. Am I right to think that this includes the
Makefile.in file in the root directory of the package?
Also: What would be the easiest way to put debian/* files in public-domain?
Docs say that when I use "public-domain" string I have to explain
exactly "what exemption the corresponding files for that paragraph have
from default copyright restrictions". What would be an example of this?
Thanks.
