[ Cc:-ing -policy ] On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 09:10:05PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Now Debian policy (section 12.5) says it should be stored in > debian/copyright. Right. For reference here is the relevant snippet from §12.5: Packages in the _contrib_ or _non-free_ archive areas should state in the copyright file that the package is not part of the Debian distribution and briefly explain why. and from Copyright Format 1.0: Disclaimer Formatted text, no synopsis: this field is used for non-free or contrib packages to state that they are not part of Debian and to explain why (see Debian Policy section 12.5). Questions for my -policy friends: can I conclude from the above that the Disclaimer field is to be used _only_ for contrib/non-free packages, and only to explain the reason of their (transitive) non-free-ness? Or is there a risk of overloading it for other reasons? (The current text implies it is not, but the name is a bit generic, and I prefer safe over sorry.) If so, I'll be happy to batchly extract those reasons and publish them somewhere at *.non-free.org. Similarly, once published, it could probably also be used to make vrms show the reason of non-free-ness, which as discussed elsewhere in this thread would be rather cool. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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