On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:14:11 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > would the follwing be sufficient in your opinion ? Thank you! > --- copyright-format.xml (révision 252) > +++ copyright-format.xml (copie de travail) > @@ -42,8 +42,11 @@ > automatically extract licensing information. > </para> > <para> > - This is not a proposal to change the policy in the short term. In > - particular, nothing in this proposal supersedes or modifies any of the > + This specification is not part of the Debian Policy, and its use is > + optional. > + </para> > + <para> > + Nothing in this proposal supersedes or modifies any of the > requirements specified in Debian Policy regarding the appropriate detail > or granularity to use when documenting copyright and license status in > <filename>debian/copyright</filename>. Fine with me. > @@ -262,10 +265,15 @@ > <para> > The declaration of copyright and license for files is done in one or > more paragraphs. In the simplest case, a single paragraph can be used > - which applies to all files and lists all applicable copyrights and > - licenses. > + which applies to the whole package. > </para> > <para> > + Only the license and copyright information required by the Debian > + archive is required to be listed here. While the syntax of the Files > + paragraph allows more information to be provided if one desires, it > + is totally optional. > + </para> > + <para> > The following fields may be present in a Files paragraph. > </para> IMO the "totally optional" is not the best message to send, I think we rather mean "optional but recommended". But I think just leaving out the sentence (and merging the first one with the paragraph before) would be enough: | <para> | The declaration of copyright and license for files is done in one or | more paragraphs. In the simplest case, a single paragraph can be used | which applies to the whole package. | Only the license and copyright information required by the Debian | archive is required to be listed here. | </para> Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: STS: Lass net los
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