Re: ``Disclaimer'' field to document non-free-ness reasons [ Was: non-free? ]
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:12:51AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> this use was my intent in 2008 when I added this field, following the release
> of version 3.8.0.0 of our Policy, that closed bug #65577 asking that “copyright
> should include notice if a package is not a part of Debian distribution”.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?action=diff&rev1=183&rev2=184
Oh, I see, thanks for the historical memory, and thanks also to Russ and
Lars for their useful answers.
> I do not remember if I wanted the Disclaimer field to be exclusively
> used for statements that packages are not part of the Debian
> distribution. In any case, a quick inspection of the Debian copyright
> files in the “packages-metadata” repository show that the field is
> also being used for other purposes.
Looks like those low-severity bug reports would be appropriate for those
packages.
FWIW, to increase awareness of this field, I've now reported #742787
against lintian, patches welcome!
Cheers.
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