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Difference between copyright and license
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| Roland Stigge 2004-03-29, 5:37 am |
| Hi,
I often see packages containing something like the following in the
copyright file:
========================================
========================================
=
Copyright:
This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License,
which can be found at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
========================================
========================================
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Instead, it should rather look like:
========================================
========================================
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Copyright:
Copyright 2003, 2004 Heinz Ketchup <heinz@ketchup.tv>
License:
This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License,
which can be found at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
========================================
========================================
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Thanks for considering.
[Feel free to post to debian-legal@lists.d.o if you want to discuss
this.]
bye,
Roland
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| Branden Robinson 2004-03-30, 3:34 am |
| On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:39:33AM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote:
> I often see packages containing something like the following in the
> copyright file:
>
> ========================================
========================================
=
> Copyright:
>
> This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License,
> which can be found at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
> ========================================
========================================
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> Instead, it should rather look like:
>
> ========================================
========================================
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> Copyright:
>
> Copyright 2003, 2004 Heinz Ketchup <heinz@ketchup.tv>
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> License:
>
> This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License,
> which can be found at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
> ========================================
========================================
=
>
> Thanks for considering.
You're exactly right.
You should consider filing bugs against any packages that do this. On a
case-by-case basis, at first. I'm not sure this sort of thing warrants
a mass-filing.
--
G. Branden Robinson |
Debian GNU/Linux | Yeah, that's what Jesus would do.
branden@debian.org | Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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