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Summary of requirements of various licenses for the reproduction of copyright notices

The goal of this page it determine for a list of common licenses whether they require to reproduce copyright statements in the Debian source and binary packages. Discussion for each license is held on the DebianLegal mailing list.

This work starts with two examples: the WTFPL, that does not require anything about the copyrights, and the GPL, that does not have special requirements for binary distributions since they are always accompanied with their sources. The table includes a columns to hold links to relevant discussions.

License

Binary

Source

Links

Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License

No

No

GNU General Public License

No

Yes

http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt Expat

Yes

Yes