Re: [gNewSense-users] package adopted: Language-pack-ti-Language-pack-yi

[Kevin Dean]

Markus,

You may be interested in looking at liblicense. The aim of the library
and the project is to enable applications, documents and other data to
be "license aware".


On 11/5/07, Markus Laire <address@hidden> wrote:
> Leo Arias F. wrote:
> > Good morning,
> >
> > I've just addopted Language-pack-ti-Language-pack-yi.
> > Now I have another question. There's a copyright file in the debian
> > folder, and it says that the license is gplv2+. But every file has a
> > header saying "This file is distributed under the same license as <the
> > corresponging program>".
> > For example, apt.po says "This file is distributed under the same
> > license as apt", and apt's license [1] has an addition to the GPL.
>
> apt's license says that "In addition, prior to November 15th, 2000, apt
> may be distributed under terms identical to the above with the following
> addition:"
>
> So it seems that that addition isn't applicable anymore, and apt's
> license is just "gplv2+"
>
> > And, this way, the acl.po file is licensed under LGPL [2].
> > So, shoud I take as the license of the package the one on the Debian
> > folder?
>
> IMO this seems to be a bug in the copyright-file.
>
> Because of such bugs, I don't trust Debian's copyright-files too much.
> To be more sure about actual licensing terms, one should check each
> source-file and not just the copyright-file. (I have a dream of doing a
> program for this task, but it might take years before I have time to do
> it, if ever.)
>
> > [1]
> > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.27.1/apt.copyright
> > [2]
> > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/acl/acl_2.2.42-1ubuntu1/copyright
>
> --
> Markus Laire
>
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