Re: Bug#451647: debian/copyright and actual copyrights
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:09:06AM +1030, Ron wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:28:28AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > OTOH this debian/copyright is clearly deficient in many ways, but stop
> > accusing him of bad faith, you're just out of your mind.
> Thanks Pierre, you've just saved us all from my response to jeff's
> wild slander from the hip.
> There are two issues here, the important one being -policy compliance,
> the other stylistic. Since the bug was raised to red-alert-panic severity
> without pointing to a single clear policy violation, I'll ask again for
> the sake of our new audience, before I summarily close it by way of reply:
> Can someone show me any single MUST in policy that is violated by this
> debian/copyright file? Bonus points if you can get them all first time.
4.5. Copyright: `debian/copyright'
----------------------------------
Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
and distribution license in the file
`/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright' (see Section 12.5, `Copyright
information' for further details). Also see Section 2.3, `Copyright
considerations' for further considerations relayed to copyrights for
packages.
"Copyright: GPL" is wrong. GPL is the license; the debian/copyright file
needs to list the copyright, which is a statement of the copyright *holder*
and the year it was written.
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