Bug#566220: [PATCH v2] Clarify “copyright and distribution license”
From: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
Claims that the policy never meant copyright notices were
supposed to be included in debian/copyright in the first place
only muddle the discussion.
This says “copyright information” instead of “copyright notices”
because as long as the information is there, it doesn’t matter if
it has exactly the same formatting. For example, combining the
dates from multiple copyright notices is a common practice.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
Hi Charles,
Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:33:29PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder a écrit :
> > Packages must include a […] lack-of-copyright statement
> > in debian/copyright.
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> That sounds new to me.
Good catch; removed.
> Where is it requested that works in the public domain
> must be documented as such in debian/copyright ?
Nowhere I know of. But it is not a new idea: see for example
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.motu/740/focus=742
Note that I did not think that every small work in the public domain
included in a package must be documented. I had only assumed that if
the package is in the public domain, the policy was that that is
supposed to be documented in debian/copyright (to at least put the
reader at ease).
Kind regards,
Jonathan
policy.sgml | 10 +++++-----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 76ac0d4..ea3ed35 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -569,8 +569,8 @@
<heading>Copyright considerations</heading>
<p>
- Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of
- its copyright and distribution license in the file
+ Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its
+ copyright information and distribution license in the file
<file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</file>
(see <ref id="copyrightfile"> for further details).
</p>
@@ -1638,8 +1638,8 @@
<sect id="dpkgcopyright">
<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
+ Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its
+ copyright information 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 information 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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1.7.0.rc1
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