question on copyright_hint

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Thu Nov 25 16:48:01 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 05:04:38PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:45:20AM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>>On 11/24/2010 12:57 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>>>so how should i proceed from here?
>>>- just remove the debian/copyright_hints completely and be happy 
>>>with what i got so far?
>
>You should be _concerned_ with what copyright-check helped you 
>discover.  Even if dislike how it works and later trash that routine.

...but looking at actual files I cannot see that the Apple copyright 
that you talk about - just a false alarm triggered by scanning binary 
code.  So I now suppressed checking those files, and dropped their 
mentioning in the copyright file (assuming they are copyright same code 
authors and licensed similarly to the code.


  - Jonas

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