Re: Re: Consultation on license documents

2023-03-18 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 10:47:46PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: [...] > My first answer to this question was "/usr/share/doc/PKGNAME/copyright > is authoritative [...] > agree with Theodore Ts'o, who rightfully said: > > I am not a lawyer, and even if I were a lawyer, I am not *your* > law

Re: Re: Consultation on license documents

2023-03-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
[ Dropping the Cc: to debian-u...@lists.debian.org - Please don't cross-post if you can avoid it! That is, please don't send the same mail to multiple mailing lists ] 刘涛 dijo [Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 10:49:34AM +0800]: > Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I originally wanted to say that every > software pa

Re: Re: Consultation on license documents

2023-03-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting 刘涛 (2023-03-18 03:49:34) > Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I originally wanted to say that every software > package in Debian will have a "copyright" document, but the input method was > mistakenly typed as copyleft. Because I found that every package in Debian > will have a "copyright" documen

Re: Re: Consultation on license documents

2023-03-17 Thread 刘涛
Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I originally wanted to say that every software package in Debian will have a "copyright" document, but the input method was mistakenly typed as copyleft. Because I found that every package in Debian will have a "copyright" document, but not every package has a "license.t

Re: Consultation on license documents

2023-03-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 09:09:22PM +0800, 刘涛 wrote: > Hello, I have the following questions to consult and look forward to your > authoritative answers. > > 1. Must various software packages in the Debian community contain a > license file "license.txt"? Without this file, how does the users > kn

Re: Consultation on license documents

2023-03-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Greg Wooledge dijo [Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 09:36:26AM -0400]: > > 2. I found that each software package has a "Copyleft" document, > > and a lot of license information is also listed in this > > document. Therefore, I would like to ask, when the two documents > > "license.txt" and "Copyleft" exist in

Re: Consultation on license documents

2023-03-17 Thread davidson
On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 刘涛 wrote: Hello, I have the following questions to consult and look forward to your authoritative answers. [OP's legal questions elided] Legal issues https://www.debian.org/legal/ The mailing list for Debian legal matters is debian-le...@lists.debian.org To s

Re: Consultation on license documents

2023-03-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 09:05:21PM +0800, 刘涛 wrote: > 1. Must various software packages in the Debian community contain a license > file "license.txt"? Without this file, how does the users know about the > license usage of the package? Each package must contain a file named "copyright" which co