[SCM] supercollider/master: Further fixes to copyright file (inc added LGPL-2.1+ and MPL-1.1 notice)

Dan S danstowell+debmm at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 19:45:45 UTC 2011


2011/6/12 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
> On 11-06-12 at 06:05pm, danstowell-guest at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>> +License: LGPL-2.1+
>> +    This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> +    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>> +    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>> +    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>> +.
>> +    This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> +    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> +    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
>> +    Lesser General Public License for more details.
>> +.
>> +    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
>> +    License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
>> +    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
>> + .
>> + On Debian systems the full text of the GNU General Public License version 2
>> + can be found in the `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1' file.
>
> Last sentence refer to wrong license.

Oops, thanks.

> Last but one sentence is superfluous.

Superfluous? I don't see.


>> +License: MPL-1.1
>> + The contents of this package are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
>> + 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
>> + the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
>> + http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
>> + .
>> + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
>> + WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
>> + for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the
>> + License.
>> + .
>> + On Debian systems,the complete text of the Mozilla
>> + Public License Version 1.1 is part of xulrunner package and can be found in
>> + "/usr/share/doc/xulrunner/MPL.gz".
>
> Such reference is not allowed (unless depending on said other package).
> Full licensing needs to be included!

Let me check that I understand: all 567 lines of the MPL to go in the
copyright file? Packages such as thunderbird and firefox put it in
MPL.gz, which we could put in the debian/ dir but I don't think the
policy allows it to go in a different file...?

Dan


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