On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:12:47AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net> writes: > > > For example, /usr/share/doc/bash/copyright reads "Copyright (C) > > 1987-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc." Although the author of the > > packaging "Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>" is mentioned, there is no > > license claimed for his packaging work. > > I consider that to be a bug worthy of reporting. (The absence of > explicit grant of license for the packaging work is a violation of > Debian Policy §4.5.) > > It will be a bug that many packages in Debian have, so you might want to > co-ordinate a response. After discussion you might find the response > is “this isn't urgent because it has been this way for decades”. Or you > might find a different consensus. > > Be aware of the Debian Developer's Reference guidance on reporting a bug > to many packages at once (in brief: don't until you discuss it with the > package maintainers and achieve consensus) > <URL:https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch07.en.html#submit-many-bugs>. > > > As far as I know, there are a lot of cases where default configuration > > files in Debian are handcrafted, either from scratch or modified from > > those in the upstream package. > > The copyright document for a package must (Debian Policy §4.5) contain > comprehensive copyright information for all the package, whether > originating from upstream or from Debian maintainers or anywhere else. > > So I think that every part of Debian is required to have its copyright > information declared explicitly in the ‘copyright’ document of one or > more installed packages on the system. > > If you know of an exception, let's discuss that; otherwise I think the > response is to talk about specific packages that fail to meet that > requirement. Hi Ben, I'm in the process of adopting php-elisp and have been delaying while waiting for copyright confirmation emails from all contributors. Given this: https://sources.debian.org/src/php-elisp/1.13.5-3/debian/copyright/ Per the URL above, is it a Policy v3.9.6 §4.5 violation? Would it be such a violation under Policy 4.2.0? There are still a lot of packages like this... Are Ola and Pontus the only copyright holders for debian/*? I've followed the licensing confirmation procedure and am tracking the replies here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903092 If Ola and Pontus are the only copyright holders then I can switch to format 1.0 with explicit licensing of debian/* :-) Regards, Nicholas
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