Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>> Reading between the lines, it sounds like you don't think that the FSF
>> address needs to be in the copyright file either, correct?
> I'm undecided. I think it's part of the license grant; certainly the FSF
> make much of the fact that the recipient needs to be explicitly informed
> of the license so they have every opportunity to know what their
> freedoms are.
I guess that what I'm arguing is that we're telling the user how to get
the GPL by adding the pointer to common-licenses, which in essence
supersedes for Debian packages the need to go get it from the FSF. If
someone wanted to provide both sets of instructions, that's certainly
okay, but I don't see a reason to require it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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