I have a closely related question to the one posed in the thread started at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/11/msg00214.html
My package has a fairly complicated constellation of copyright holders and licenses, and upstream has been helpful and provided a comprehensive statement in their AUTHORS file, which I install into /usr/share/doc/$package. Is it acceptable for debian/copyright to say simply This package was debianized by (former maintainers, me). The source distribution was downloaded from (URL). Upstream authors are reachable at (email address). Copyright holders are listed in /usr/share/doc/$package/AUTHORS.gz $package, as a whole, is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2, or at your option, any later version). [full GPL boilerplate here] On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. $package includes substantial bodies of code developed by others and available under terms more permissive than the GPL. See /usr/share/doc/$package/AUTHORS.gz for complete statements of authorship, copyrights, and licensing. or should I be pasting the entire text of AUTHORS into debian/copyright? If so, does anyone have a debian/rules fragment to do that automatically at package build time? Thanks, zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]