* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 2011-07-20, 11:06:
http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/kinda suggests to use short license name "public-domain" within License: field. But also it suggests that Copyright is the correct place for such information (which I agree with, since being "public domain" is about ownership, not description of the use terms)I think public domain in the Debian DEP-5 context is a license. While it's not legally a license, the public domain status serves the same purpose: telling people what rights they have to use the work. So I would do something like:License: public-domain<insert here the exact wording from upstream explaining why the work is in the public domain>
So what to put in the Copyright field? It's a required one. -- Jakub Wilk