Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > My understanding is that the entire operating system is delivered as > packages, and each package declares its copyright information in its > ‘/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGENAME/copyright’ document.
This however covers only the *source* of the package, not the binary packages. There is no way to find out the license of the binary packages without checking very carefully the sources and the way the package is created. So, the end user does not know what he is allowed to do with a certain (binary) Debian software package. Best Ole
