[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#775588: Bug#775588: darcs: Missing copyright information

[Christian Kastner]

On 2015-01-18 13:52, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 17.01.2015, 19:39 +0100 schrieb Christian Kastner:
>> The copyright information and the license terms for the files
>>
>>     src/Crypt/*
>>
>> is missing from debian/copyright.
>
> I wonder: Since it is a mix of GPL and BSD, we are effectively
> distributing it under the GPL. Shouldn’t be be sufficient to stat that
> in a single
>  
>         Files: *
>         
> section?

Perhaps I misunderstood something, but to be clear: some files are
distributed under the GPL, and some under a BSD license. The combination
thereof doesn't change this, there is no dual-licensing or
license-mixing here. To emphasize this, I would

  * add a new Files: section for the BSD sha2.{c,h} files, and

    * either create a new Files: section for SHA256.hs, or

    * merge it with the Files: *, if the referred GPL version is
      determined to be the same.

As mentioned, haskel-hashed-storage already does something similar:


http://sources.debian.net/src/haskell-hashed-storage/0.5.10-4/debian/copyright/#L32

The only thing that's not clear to be is which specific version of the
GPL is being referred to in SHA256.hs, so one would probably have to ask
the author.

Regards,
Christian