On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:29:09PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > [I intent to send this to debian-devel-announce, please tell me if I'm > completely wrong] > > Hi, > > when reviewing several NMs' packages I came accross many broken > copyright files in recent weeks. Upon investigation I found that many > (many!) copyright files in the archives are not really any better. > > This is an example on how _NOT_ to do it: [snip lacking copyright file] > > This lacks some quite important information: > > - who owns the copyright. This must give the year and the copyright > owner. This is a serious bug. From policy 12.5: Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license in the file `/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright'. This file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link. This is also mentioned in policy 2.3. > - It does not really say that the software in question is licensed under > the GPL, and it loses information like 'GPL v2 or any later version'. This is true also. > A proper copyright file looks like this: > > [...] [snip proper copyright file] You forgot where the upstream source was obtained, although you might have included that in the [...]. -- Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> 0x560553e7
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