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Bug#786470: debian-policy: [copyright-format] Add an optional “License-Grant” field



Hello,

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 01:34:42PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Experiments on new fields are welcome, and it is good to open bugs to track
> them.  But I think that we should first see how the proposed field gets
> traction before adding it to the specification.

codesearch.debian.net suggests that this field is now used in quite a
few packages.  It seems reasonable to add a description of its use to
the copyright format.

I have some questions about Ben's patch:

1) the patch needs to be rebased against current policy

2) Is there a missing "License-Grant:" here:

>  Files: debian/patches/fancy-feature
>  Copyright: 2010 Daniela Debianizer
> +    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> +    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> +    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> +    (at your option) any later version.
>  License: GPL-3+

-- 
Sean Whitton

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