Hello, On Mon 23 Jul 2018 at 01:05PM +0500, Lev Lamberov wrote: > When I searched the Debian Policy for "license" I was not able to find > any requirement of the mentioned sort. And the section 2.3 is about > debian/copyright file (which is installed as > /usr/share/doc/package/copyright), not LICENSE (or any similar), it is > about _package_, not upstream source. > > I've participated as a FTPTrainee in FTP team for some (quite short, I'd > say) time, and I've never heard about any requirement of the sort. If a > given upstream source has a clear license notice, it should be enough. > In such a case the only problem may be with debian/copyright, which is > not related to the upstream source. Found what I had in mind, in the REJECT-FAQ: "If the upstream tarball does not include a copy of the license, debian/copyright must document when and how the license information was obtained (i.e. include "Downloaded by John Doe on 2008-12-24 from http://example.net/license"; or reproduce email correspondence including some header) in addition to reproducing the license itself. In the past there were uploads where one couldn't find the license statement in the tarball or on the website from upstream, which is bad." -- Sean Whitton
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