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Copyright Information

The debian/copyright file should contain:

  • The licensing information for all files in the source. Sometimes author(s) put a license in COPYING but have different licensing information for some files in the source.

  • The copyright holder(s) and year(s).

  • The entire license unless it is one of the licenses found in /usr/share/common-licenses, in which case you should just include the preamble.


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