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Bug#649679: [copyright-format] Clarify what distinguishes files and stand-alone license paragraphs.



Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> I don't think that should be legal either however; we allow "extra
> fields" to be added to any paragraph, but I don't believe the intent is
> to allow *defined* fields to be used in paragraphs where they are not
> specified to be permitted - only to allow new field names to be used.
> So I think something like the attached patch should be applied.
> Thoughts?

Agreed, I think this would be horribly confusing.  I agree with your
change here.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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