On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:58:36 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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> > --- [..] > 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> Seconded. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x00F3CFE4, 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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