Bug#768292: Addition of the MPL to /usr/share/common-licenses (was Re: debian/copyright in source package)
Control: tag -1 patch
> Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
>
> > thanks for reminding us of #768292. I think that it reached broad consensus
> > for the addition of the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses.
>
> > I attached a patch that modifies the Policy accordingly.
>
> > Are we ready to call for seconds on this one ?
Le Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:15:54AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>
> I say go for it. After watching a lot of these threads, I'm increasingly
> feeling like we've been too conservative in adding things to common
> licenses and haven't been trading disk space for developer time in the
> most efficient way. (That said, we still don't want to go wild with extra
> licenses.)
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Le Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:37:11PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin a écrit :
>
> Seconded.
Thanks for your prompt answers. Here is a final patch where Russ adn Andrey
are listed as seconders.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles
>From 6d0cc6dbc4b503702ce4064521b87e1c1fae888a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:34:09 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses.
Closes: #768292
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
---
debian/changelog | 5 +++++
policy.sgml | 13 ++++++++-----
upgrading-checklist.sgml | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d48eac8..ad66bd1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Closes: #106073
+ * Policy: Add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses.
+ Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
+ Closes: #768292
-- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Fri, 08 May 2015 15:10:02 +0200
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 404dc73..36bed13 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -10820,9 +10820,10 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
<p>
Packages distributed under the Apache license (version 2.0), the
Artistic license, the GNU GPL (versions 1, 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>
+ LGPL (versions 2, 2.1, or 3), the GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3),
+ and the Mozilla Public License (version 1.1 or 2.0) should refer
+ to the corresponding files under
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses</file>,<footnote>
<p>
In particular,
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0</file>,
@@ -10833,8 +10834,10 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2</file>,
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1</file>,
<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>
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.2</file>,
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.3</file>,
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/MPL-1.1</file>, and
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/MPL-2.0</file>
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
diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index ebb17fc..8ca34a7 100644
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ Released xxx, 2015.
<item> recommend to ship additional documentation for package
<prgn>pkg</prgn> in a separate package <prgn>pkg-doc</prgn> and install it
into <file>/usr/share/doc/pkg</file>.
- </item> </taglist></p>
+ </item>
+<tag>12.5</tag>
+ <item> Add the Mozilla Public Licenses to <file>/usr/share/common-licenses</file>;
+ so that they can be referred to rather than quoted in Copyright files.</item>
+</taglist></p>
<sect id="3.9.6.0"> Version 3.9.6.0
<p>
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2.1.4
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