Re: public-domain in the debian/copyright

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

"Gustavo S. L." <ghtp25@gmail.com> writes:

> I did this: "License: public-domain
>  No license required for any purpose; the work is not subject to copyright
> in
>  any jurisdiction.
> "

That's merely an assertion. The policy for declaring “public-domain”
specifies that the paragraph needs to contain the *justification* for
that assertion.

In other words, you need to put a verifiable explanation of why this
work in particular is explicitly exempt from copyright. Enough
information that others (e.g. the FTP master team) can verify the
assertion is true.

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