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Re: non-free/contrib package maintainers

> 
> > I afraid they won't contain _original_ license file.
> > That's why I asked - to avoid unpacking each _source_ archive and looking
> > for license mannualy. 
> 
> Unfortunately, in quite a few cases - the _original_ license file
> doesn't exist.  Quite often, the license is external from the distributed
> package.  Sometimes, the copyright is located in the source code
> itself.  Sometimes it's in multiple places.  If the package maintainer
> has done the job properly - then /usr/doc/<package-name>/copyright should
> contain the "researched" copyright notice.
> 
> Asking each maintainer to unpack the source archives and send in the
> copyrights is basically just a duplication of effort with what they've
> already done with the /usr/doc/.../copyright file.

Yeah, and if that file doesn't exist, you can request the licence
via the bug tracking system.

Really, the /usr/doc/.../copyright file is the best we could come
up as "licence" in the first place. If I were to reply to you anthing
other than "mail aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu < /usr/doc/.../copyright", I
should probably change my debian sources, and modify that copyright file.

And, just extracting all non-free .deb's and getting the copyright file
isn't all that big an efford, I'd say. One or two lines of bash should do it
(long lines, ok,..).

-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/


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