[Pkg-ofed-devel] libfabric_1.3.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Ana Guerrero Lopez ana at debian.org
Sat May 14 16:36:53 UTC 2016


On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 05:56:31PM +0200, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> Hi Ana,
> 
> On Fri, 13 May 2016, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote:
> > > Please take care of:
> > >  W: libfabric source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright expat (paragraph at line 7)
> > 
> > Could you please tell me how? besides an override (Like most people seem to be
> > doing, see [1].
> 
> yes, such overrides are not nice, but as most of them are related to
> licenses in /usr/share/common-licenses/ it is not that bad. Though it would
> be better to have a one line pointer to that directory as license text.
> 
> >               It's the expat license, there is not other paragraph to add
> > there or you're expecting the full text from the license there?
> 
> The expat license does not belong to the common ones, so the complete text
> should appear in debian/copyright.
> 
> >                                                        I skipt it
> > because it's listed as a known license at
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-specification
> 
> Yes, "known" in this context means that you already known the terms of the
> license from the name without reading it.
> Nevertheless the license says: "The above copyright notice and this
> permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of
> the Software."
> So the license text has to appear somewhere in the binary package and as
> your debian/copyright will be copied from the source package, the complete
> license text should be in it.

Thank you Thorsten. I have updated and re-uploaded.

Ana



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