On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:11:17PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 19:42:50 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > While it clearly violates the Debian Policy, I fail to see how it render > > the package undistributable. None of the licenses used in QEMU requires > > to have a file mentioning all the copyright holder and all the licenses. > > I guess it is a matter of how to interpret: > > 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > > I would personally interpret it as 'the source is provided with the > distribution, so it is already provided' rather than 'must be mentioned in > documentation in the binary package'. >
This is already done in debian/copyright: | Many hardware device emulation sources are released under the BSD license. | On Debian systems, the complete text of the BSD license be found in the | file /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
