Re: Goals of debian/copyright
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
>> 6) Documentation for users about usability of packages in non-free
>> (IE, non-commercial, non-modifiable, etc.)
> Why restrict this point to non-free? I think it's important for users of
> *all* software to have easy, predictably-located access to the terms
> under which they receive it.
>
> 6) Documentation for users about all terms for works distributed
> in Debian.
>
> Unless you're trying to draw an IMO non-existent line between someone
> who would never need to exercise the terms of the work, and different
> people who would.
I read this part as encapsulating the current Policy requirement that
packages in contrib and non-free use debian/copyright to document why
they're not in main.
Speaking of which, the other requirement we have is:
8) Provide information about the upstream maintainer and upstream
location of the software for non-native software, including any
necessary repackaging of upstream source for Debian's purposes.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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