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Re: Public Domain again



On 31/01/2013 23:16, Ben Finney wrote:
> Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> writes:
> 
>> Will you still be uploading to main, if one day it becomes illegal
>> in your own country ?
> 
> Are you taking a poll? Or is there particular interest in MJ Ray's
> answer?

No.

> What is the actual issue you're addressing with starting this thread?

My issue is that i don't understand how public domain is DFSG, and the
consequence is that i cannot handle it properly in debian packages.
For example, reading [0]:

 When the License field in a paragraph has the short name public-domain,
 the remaining lines of the field must explain exactly what exemption the
 corresponding files for that paragraph have from default copyright
 restrictions.

This debian/copyright paragraph doesn't follow that requirement :

 Files: *
 License: public-domain

How can i tell it's a mistake if i can't explain what's wrong ?

Jérémy.

[0]
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#public-domain


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