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Bug#367650: marked as done (allow pointers to info docs for licenses like GFDL that apply to them)

Your message dated Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:13:31 -0700
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and subject line Rejected: Bug#367650: allow pointers to info docs for licenses like GFDL that apply to them
has caused the Debian Bug report #367650,
regarding allow pointers to info docs for licenses like GFDL that apply to them
to be marked as done.

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Package: texinfo
Version: 4.3-1
Severity: serious

Debian Policy section 13.5 states:

     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.

The GNU Free Documentation License is not included, except as a
reference to both the Emacs manual and the Texinfo manual.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux stonewall 2.4.20-1-k7 #1 Sat Mar 22 15:17:52 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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This proposal asks to relax the requirements for debian/copyright to
permit pointers to info docs that contain the relevant license.

There are a few problems with this, some of which were spelled out in the
resulting thread.  It prevents easily extracting all the relevant
copyright files from a set of packages and it weakens the current
guarantees that the copyright file is where all the relevant information
is.  Also, on the practical front, the GFDL is now in common-licenses, and
that's the most common case where a license would be in an info document,
so the problem is now mostly theoretical.

For those reasons, I'm rejecting this proposal.  It was not widely
discussed at the time it was proposed (2003), so this is a soft rejection,
meaning that if someone feels strongly about this proposal and wants to
step forward to champion it again, I'd be willing to reopen the bug.
However, I expect it would encounter a fair bit of opposition unless
there's a compelling practical case for changing the current rules.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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