Jonathan Yu <[email protected]> writes: > The other day I was packaging Module::CPANTS::Analyse, a Perl module. > As part of its tests, it includes a bunch of other distributions in > gzipped tarball format. However, as these included tarballs are > actually those of other distributions, their copyright is different. > Sure, that's fine. > > So I have a bunch of copyright statements for each .tar.gz file. > > My question becomes: what happens when a file *inside* the tar.gz has > a different copyright than the rest of the package?
Since the *.tar.gz files aren't included in a binary package, the practical answer is that it really doesn't matter very much, or at least only matters to the extent that ftp-master needs your copyright information to check the archive for non-free files. The *.tar.gz files include all the relevant licenses, so you don't need to duplicate information in order to satisfy licenses, only to aid with copyright checking. I would just document each *.tar.gz file with the distribution copyright and license, namely whatever the author indicates covers the distribution as a whole, and make sure that they didn't mess up and include something with an incompatible license. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
