Bug#566220: [PATCH] Clarify "verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license"
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com> writes:
>> 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.
> When raising the issue here in the past, I've been told (most recently,
> by Russ) to discuss it on debian-devel first, to get the position of the
> ftpmasters, before asking for such a change.
Which, if I recall correctly, I said in the context of pointing out that
your interpretation of Policy that you just posted to debian-devel is
clearly not what's currently required, nor what has historically been
expected in debian/copyright.
> Please, don't try to short-circuit the discussion that's been requested.
We should correctly document the current situation regardless, even if
we're discussing whether to change it, since having the current wording be
ambiguous isn't helping anyone. The only reason to not document the
current situation is if we expect the current situation to change very
soon, and I don't see any sign that this change is going to happen quickly
(given the complete lack of movement on it since the last time it came
up).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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