Ole Streicher writes:
> I am not sure if this is legally so simple: As far as I understand
> licensing, it is the way to allow others to use the product (sorry for
> unprofessional wording here; I am not at all a specialist in that).
Good enough; I'd just replace the term “use” with something mo
On 14/11/14 19:19, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Francesco Poli writes:
>> I am not aware of any update on the matter: I suppose the determination
>> of the effective licenses of binary packages is still something to be
>> done manually.
>>
>> I hope this answers Ole's question, although maybe in a disap
Francesco Poli writes:
> I am not aware of any update on the matter: I suppose the determination
> of the effective licenses of binary packages is still something to be
> done manually.
>
> I hope this answers Ole's question, although maybe in a disappointing
> way...
I am not sure if this is leg
David Prévot writes:
> Le 13/11/2014 16:37, Ben Finney a écrit :
>
> > The ‘debian/copyright’ file is installed by each binary package
> > ‘foopackage’ as the ‘/usr/share/doc/foopackage/copyright’ file, and
> > constitutes the copyright information for that binary package.
>
> That’s an incomplet
Hi,
Le 13/11/2014 16:37, Ben Finney a écrit :
>> The file debian/copyright only contains the license of the sources;
>
> Not true.
That’s a strong affirmation. Policy 4.5 may deserve some clarification,
but I wouldn’t be so affirmative (or negative).
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch
Le Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 05:35:00PM +0100, Ole Streicher a écrit :
>
> I asked this question already some months ago in debian-mentors, but
> didn't get an answer:
>
> How is the license of a binary Debian package determined?
>
> The file debian/copyright only contains the license of the sources;
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:43:10 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> The debian/copyright file is intended for clearly documenting the
> licensing status of source packages, not the effective licenses of
> binary packages built from them.
[...]
Mmmmh, I wrote this too fast, on the basis of what was s
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 07:17:00 +1100 Riley Baird wrote:
> > How is the license of a binary Debian package determined?
> >
> > The file debian/copyright only contains the license of the sources;
> > however the binary license may differ -- f.e. when a BSD source is
> > linked to a GPL library. Also
>> however the binary license may differ -- f.e. when a BSD source is
>> linked to a GPL library. Also there is usually more than one license
>> used in the sources.
>
> Right, so the source package should have a ‘debian/copyright’ which
> specifies copyright information for all binary packages ge
Ole Streicher writes:
> How is the license of a binary Debian package determined?
>
> The file debian/copyright only contains the license of the sources;
Not true. The ‘debian/copyright’ file is installed by each binary
package ‘foopackage’ as the ‘/usr/share/doc/foopackage/copyright’ file,
and
> How is the license of a binary Debian package determined?
>
> The file debian/copyright only contains the license of the sources;
> however the binary license may differ -- f.e. when a BSD source is
> linked to a GPL library. Also there is usually more than one license
> used in the sources.
I'
Hi,
I asked this question already some months ago in debian-mentors, but
didn't get an answer:
How is the license of a binary Debian package determined?
The file debian/copyright only contains the license of the sources;
however the binary license may differ -- f.e. when a BSD source is
linked t
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