Re: License of Debian-specific parts in packages, generally and in particular

2004-07-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:55:47PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > More generally, I found out that this is the case for many packages > (just a random pick: emacs21{-common}, kdebase-bin, scigraphica) have > the same deficiencies. An example for a "good" package is the xfree > Packages; Does this re

Re: License of Debian-specific parts in packages, generally and in particular

2004-07-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > in particular, tetex-base has a woeful copyright file (#218105), and > while I'm trying to resolve this, I came across the fact that some of > the Debian-specific code (maintainer scripts, templates,...) does > not have a license statement. The maintainer scripts don

Re: License of Debian-specific parts in packages, generally and in particular

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:55:47PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > 1. Shouldn't we add a note to the Policy (or the Developer's Reference) >that there should be a license statement for the Debian-specific >parts in debian/copyright? I think we should, and it should be a >"must" directive p

License of Debian-specific parts in packages, generally and in particular

2004-07-08 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, in particular, tetex-base has a woeful copyright file (#218105), and while I'm trying to resolve this, I came across the fact that some of the Debian-specific code (maintainer scripts, templates,...) does not have a license statement. The maintainer scripts don't even have a proper copyright s