On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:51:25AM +0100, Dominik Smatana wrote: > Hello, > > thank you for answers.. I'll contact upstream author. > > One more "license-newbie" question: > > In some upstream source files there is just one single line comment at > beginning: > > // Please see included LICENSE.TXT > > licensecheck says "UNKNOWN" of course... > > Is such reference to external file sufficient for source files to be > packed for Debian? > > Or should they begin with FULL license included inside? Did you ever see the full text of the GPL (any version) at the top of a source file? A reference to the licence is enough, so long as the referenced file really is included. I would recommend to upstream that they include a copyright statement (year and owner) in each file, though.
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