On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 11:43:29PM +0100, Alexander Toresson wrote: >> For an application I'm currently helping with packaging, there are >> many (source and non-source) files without license statements, of >> which many don't even have a stated author. How do we handle these? Do >> we need to investigate the license and/or author of each file, or is >> it possible to assume that the files are under the main license of the >> application, and are made by the main authors of the application? > > Unless you have a specific reason to believe this is not the case, yes, it's > a reasonable assumption that the files have the same copyright and license > as the main body of the work. There is no requirement of per-file copyright > notices. > >> Also, when using a machine-readable copyright file, do you need to >> separate paragraghs for different authors? >> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#copyright-field >> suggests that you would not need to do that, but I've gotten different >> information from the main maintainer of the package. > > Provided that the license is the same, such that it's possible to express > this as a single paragraph without being inaccurate, you don't need separate > paragraphs. > > (E.g., if the source package contains source for two different programs, and > the sources are freely but incompatibly licensed, don't just say Files: * > License: License-1 and License-2 since that doesn't tell users anything > about what their rights are.) >
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