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| From | Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.legal, linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ? |
| Date | 2017-09-23 12:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <usPxO-1Ma-75@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 at 10:25:33 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Not a readymade solution, but perhaps a lead to follow: package copyright
> info is supposed to be in a file debian/copyright within the package source
> archive[1]. I don't know at the moment whether this info percolates to
> the package binary when building.
It does, and Debian Policy says it must. That information ends up in
/usr/share/doc/${binary_package}/copyright where ${binary_package} is the
binary package. For instance, the dbus source package produces binary
packages that include dbus, dbus-x11 and libdbus-1-3, so its
debian/copyright gets copied to /usr/share/doc/dbus/copyright,
/usr/share/doc/dbus-x11/copyright and /usr/share/doc/libdbus-1-3/copyright,
among others.
In rare cases the binary package copyright file is not identical to the
source copyright: if a package foo has a GPL part packaged as foo-utils
and a LGPL part packaged as libfoo0, it would be valid to list both GPL
and LGPL in debian/copyright, only GPL in /u/s/d/foo-utils/copyright
and only LGPL in /u/s/d/libfoo0/copyright. However, in practice
maintainers don't make use of this, because it creates extra work for
little or no benefit, and carries a risk of accidentally providing
incomplete or untrue copyright/licensing information.
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Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ? Yanhao Mo <yanhaocs@gmail.com> - 2017-09-23 02:50 +0200
Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ? Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2017-09-23 08:40 +0200
Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ? Yanhao Mo <yanhaocs@gmail.com> - 2017-09-23 10:10 +0200
Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-23 10:50 +0200
Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ? Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2017-09-23 12:10 +0200
Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-23 12:30 +0200
Re: Is there a list contains all debian packages and it's license ? Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2017-09-23 14:20 +0200
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