Re: some thoughts on DEP-5

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> 1) The description of the License field says:
> >Otherwise, this field should either include the full text
> >of the license(s) or include a pointer to the license file under
> >`/usr/share/common-licenses`.
> 
> This could be interpreted as if just the pointer would be enough, which
> is
> however (AFAIU) not what is meant by the policy 12.5, which says a
> verbatim
> copy must be included and the pointer is (AFAIU) just something that
> should
> be given in addition?!

     Packages distributed under the Apache license (version 2.0), the
     Artistic license, the GNU GPL (versions 1, 2, or 3), the GNU LGPL
     (versions 2, 2.1, or 3), and the GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3) should
     refer to the corresponding files under
     `/usr/share/common-licenses',[1] rather than quoting them in the
     copyright file.

HTH

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