Julian Wollrath <jwollr...@web.de> writes: > David Bremner <brem...@debian.org> wrote: >> This kind of change (changing the copyright file format) is not usually >> acceptable in an NMU, unless cleared with the maintainer. > But how else should I address the missing license information for 'pevent/*', > 'src/perf/perf_event.h', 'src/tuning/iw.*' and 'src/tuning/nl80211.h'. I only > found for the machine readable format how source files with different > licenses > should be addressed in the debian/copyright file. If I am not supposed to > change the format, should I just add under the overall copyright notice, > something like this: > > The files foo/* are Copyright year 'copyright holder' > - Short license text - > > for the above mentioned files, since it gives me no lintian warnings, or > should > it be done in some totally different way?
The above is correct. Without DEP-5, the format is entirely up to you. As long as it contains the necessary information, it's good enough. You can take a look at aalib's copyright file[1] for an example, which is very similar to what you yourself proposed above. [1]: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/aalib/current/copyright -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wr3vdpu7.fsf@algernon.balabit
