Regarding the generation of copyright. This may be a little unusual, but is intended to be helpful for complex packages to actually clarify and make explicit the copyright notices and licenses for the packaging, upstream and any third party code.
We do this now in Debian and Ubuntu for sun-java[56] packages. And, this is ultimately based on advice on how to clarify copyright as given here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/04/msg00251.html HTH, --Tom -- Include NEW package: netbeans5.5 https://launchpad.net/bugs/92476 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs