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Bug#284340: Please remove reference to UC in BSD license



On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:13:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Any further discussion?  

Sounds logcial to me.

> I'm also looking for seconds for the Policy patch
> below:
> 
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 87b9795..02d6f8d 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -9227,14 +9227,13 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>  	</p>
>  
>  	<p>
> -	  Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Apache
> -	  license (version 2.0), the Artistic license, the GNU GPL
> -	  (version 2 or 3), the GNU LGPL (versions 2, 2.1, or 3), and the
> -	  GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3) should refer to the corresponding
> -	  files under <file>/usr/share/common-licenses</file>,<footnote>
> +	  Packages distributed under the Apache license (version 2.0), the
> +	  Artistic license, the GNU GPL (version 2 or 3), the GNU LGPL
> +	  (versions 2, 2.1, or 3), and the GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3)
> +	  should refer to the corresponding files
> +	  under <file>/usr/share/common-licenses</file>,<footnote>
>  	    <p>
>  	      In particular,
> -              <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD</file>,
>                <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0</file>,
>                <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic</file>,
>                <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2</file>,
> @@ -9244,7 +9243,14 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>                <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-3</file>,
>                <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.2</file>, and
>                <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.3</file>
> -              respectively.
> +	      respectively.  The University of California BSD license is
> +	      also included in <package>base-files</package> as
> +	      <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD</file>, but given the
> +	      brevity of this license, its specificity to code whose
> +	      copyright is held by the Regents of the Univesrity of
> +	      California, and the frequency of minor wording changes, its
> +	      text should be included in the copyright file rather than
> +	      referencing this file.
>              </p>
>            </footnote> rather than quoting them in the copyright
>  	  file. 

Seconded.

Cheers,
gregor
 
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