Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:13:24AM +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit : > > My understanding is, that it should be a complete overview of the source > licenses. I do not treat generated files as source, because, > well... they're not. > > They might come in the source tarball, like the autotools-generat

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Sven Hoexter writes: > The question is what should be achieved with d/copyright? > Give just a short overview over the main parts of the package or a complete > overview of the complete package contents? My understanding is, that it should be a complete overview of the source licenses. I do not

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:26:36AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: Hi, > ..and configure scripts have parts of autotools, Makefile.ins contain > code from automake, and even compiled binaries contain stuff that > originates from the compiler. > > I don't think these should be documented in debian/cop

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Nikolaus Rath writes: > My sponsor requested me to add debian/copyright entries for files in the > generated HTML documentation. The documentation is generated by Sphinx, > and Sphinx adds some templates and js libraries which are then covered > (at least that's what I believe) by the Sphinx lice

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:23:01 -0400 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > I don't personally think it's interesting or relevant to record in > > debian/copyright the license of generated files, and there is certainly > > nothing in Policy that requires you to do this. Why do you ask? > > > My sponsor reques

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:54:14 -0400 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Neil Williams writes: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 > > Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > > >> I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights > >> for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for f

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Neil Williams writes: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 > Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights >> for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files >> that are installed by the generated .deb. >> >> Does that mea

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Steve Langasek writes: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:54:53PM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights >> for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files >> that are installed by the generated .deb. > >> Does that me

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:54:53PM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights > for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files > that are installed by the generated .deb. > Does that mean that files that are *generat

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0400 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I understand that a DEP5 copyright file lists licenses and copyrights > for files in the debian source package directory, rather than for files > that are installed by the generated .deb. > > Does that mean that files that are *generated*