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Re: What criteria does ftpmaster use for the ‘copyright’ file of a package?



On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:48:39PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> >   - Policy requires reproduction of the copyright notices for a work
> >   in debian/copyright.

> This point in particular I don't think is clear. It has been argued
> several times in the past that it is the copyright *license* that is
> important, and needs to be reproduced in the package ‘copyright’ file.

It has been argued *by you*.  I have refuted this.

> Especially in combination with your later points (that the copyright
> notices can't be “corrected”, which I take to imply that aggregation and
> re-phrasing of the notices is also verboten)

This is not what I said.

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