question on copyright_hint

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 06:12:04PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>On 11/25/2010 05:48 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
>no, it was a true alarm (actually 2, see my other mail)
>however, upstream released a new version (hence "patch2") with fixed files

Ah, ok :-)


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