Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 <[🔎] 873bh3tqkp.fsf@gismo.pca.it> > Just to be sure, is the following enough for the BSD license? > > This software is licensed under the terms of the BSD license, > which can be found on Debian systems in the file > /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD or from > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php > > The license was modified to reflect that $AUTHOR, not the Regents > of the University of California, is the author. It feels wrong to do that, I'd copy the whole text. IMHO having the (C) Regents line in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD makes that file practically useless, except for using the text as a cut-and-paste template. The fact that every (L)GPL packages' copyright points to /usr/share/common-licenses/ is misleading. Packagers are required to put the *full* license in debian/copyright (be it a 'short' license like BSD-style, be it a long text as the GPL uses). The ability to point to another file is just a matter of convenience for a some licenses. Most new maintainers seem to get that wrong. Christoph -- cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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