Hi, > having > copyright files that vary with binary package doesn't make sense to me.
I struggled with that as well while rewriting the copyright check. Lintian will soon ignore per-package copyrights in ./debian. It will also produce errors. Lintian may further print errors when copyright files in installation packages are not true copies of the d/copyright file in their source. > One nice thing that having separate copyright files per binary package > would let you do is be unambiguous that a particular binary package with > an OpenSSL dependency contains only BSD-licensed code even if the source > package has other GPL-licensed code, so that you know for certain there's > no clash with the OpenSSL license. Leaving the relicensing of OpenSSL aside (plus, alternatives like wolfSSL exist) I do not think that this fine point, while well articulated, warrants the technical complexity or the legal risks. Kind regards Felix Lechner
