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List:       calligra-devel
Subject:    Re: Debian packaging: copyright and embeeded libs
From:       Jos van den Oever <jos () vandenoever ! info>
Date:       2013-05-20 13:07:22
Message-ID: 201305201507.22653.jos () vandenoever ! info
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On Saturday 18 May 2013 22:28:08 PM Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Saturday 18 May 2013 May 22:14:00 Adrien wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have some questions regarding the packaging of Calligra for Debian. For 
> > now we have Calligra 2.6.1 in experimental.
> > 
> > – about copyright
> > 
> > Debian requires to bulid a copyright files to know all the licences used. 
> > Using the licensecheck script, I got 21 different licenses for calligra, but 
> > some files are unclear :
> > 
> > Some files like words/part/tests/TestTextFrameSorting.h have no mention of 
> > copyright. It's mainly the tests cases or some scripts in tools/script/. 
> > Should we assume it's the same license as in COPYING?
> 
> At one point, I think we had the explicit policy that unittests weren't going to \
> have a license header. I don't know why... That was back in the KOffice days. 
> > 
> > The file tools/scripts/downloadMSOfficeDocuments.pl has a copyright mention, 
> > but without a licence. Should we assume it's the same license as in COPYING 
> > or is it non-free ?
> 
> Let's ask Jos -- I've cc'ed him. It's his file.

It is the same license as in COPYING, GPLv2. Note that the file is only needed for \
debugging and is not needed for building or running any part of Calligra.

Cheers,
Jos
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