Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Tags: patch
User: debian-policy@packages.debian.org
Usertags: informative
Clarify what is meant by "verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution
license" to be explicit about what Debian has always required for this file,
to put to rest the silly arguments that this should be parsed as "(copyright
and distribution) license". If someone wants to argue that Policy should
*not* require reproducing the copyright notices when this is not required by
the license, let them argue that Policy should be changed rather than
wrongly claiming it's not a Policy requirement.
---
policy.sgml | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 76ac0d4..aea4358 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@
<p>
Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of
- its copyright and distribution license in the file
+ its copyright notices and distribution license in the file
<file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</file>
(see <ref id="copyrightfile"> for further details).
</p>
@@ -1639,7 +1639,7 @@
<heading>Copyright: <file>debian/copyright</file></heading>
<p>
Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of
- its copyright and distribution license in the file
+ its copyright notices and distribution license in the file
<file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</file>
(see <ref id="copyrightfile"> for further details). Also see
<ref id="pkgcopyright"> for further considerations related
@@ -9108,7 +9108,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
<p>
Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its
- copyright and distribution license in the file
+ copyright notices and distribution license in the file
<file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</file>. This
file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link.
</p>
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