Debian packaging: copyright and embeeded libs

[Jos van den Oever]

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