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Re: Debian Perl Policy: Add statement about debian/copyright



-=| Ansgar Burchardt, Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 06:54:54PM +0100 |=-
> I have prepared an addition to the Perl Group Policy to reflect 
> this, and to have a template for the common debian/copyright files. 
> I have attached the new section and the complete patch.

Thank you for your work on this, Ansgar.

> The preferred format for F<debian/copyright> is the proposed 
> machine-readable format (as described on 
> L<http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat>). The Debian 
> Perl Group must not be listed as a copyright holder, contributors 
> claiming copyright should list themselves.

As long as this format is not obligatory, I have no objections. Thing 
is, for packages with many copyright holders the new format gets 
rather bloated (in my experience anyway; and yes, "preferred" is fine 
by me).

> The license for the packaging should not be more restrictive than the upstream
> license or the Perl license.

Hmm. What if upstream license is GPL-2-only? Can we use a more relaxed 
license for the packaging? I think not.

Why not drop " or the Perl license" from the above?


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