On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:30:49PM +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Hi Justin,
Hi all (I'm Cc: Craig Small, the dh_make maintainer),
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:22:01PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > Well, I'm not sure if the paragraphs *should* be there, accourding to
> > Debian's policy. But the GPL recommends it, I think; ...
> Are you refering to the following clause?
>
> To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is
> safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most
> effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should
> have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full
> notice is found.
Yes.
> Does this only refer to source files or does it also apply to the
> debian/copyright file? What do you think?
I'm just going by the dh_make output,
> > ... and dh_make includes the disclaimer.
> Do you know what was the rationale for this?
the rationale of which I can only guess at. ./debian/copyright seems
to be targetted as the 1-stop source for finding:
1. the copyright holder;
2. their license;
3. other relevant information;
4. the name of the person responsible for creating and maintaining
1,2,3
5. a public location where 1,2,3 can be easily confirmed, if need be
This makes lots of sense to me, as Debian needs to continually
reaffirm its freeness. Its really good to be able to say "What
specific free license is $pkg under?", and then readily find out
without having to download the source, or google, or grep, or ...
The disclaimer, I guess, is supposed to be "relevent information".
Craig, can you add anything to this, or provide pointers?
> > Like I said, if you feel its unnecessary
> > baggage, feel free to close.
> Well, let's first make sure we get it right.
Agree,
Justin
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