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Bug#928199: marked as done (List of licenses that don't require gathering all copyright notices)

Your message dated Sun, 07 Jul 2019 15:34:50 +0000
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and subject line Bug#928199: fixed in debian-policy 4.4.0.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #928199,
regarding List of licenses that don't require gathering all copyright notices
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.3.0.3
Severity: normal
User: debian-policy@packages.debian.org
Usertags: informative
Tags: patch

Hello,

I've written a patch to add a footnote with a list of licenses that are
thought not to require the copying of all copyright notices into
Debian's copyright file.

This does not need seconding, because footnotes are not normative, but I
haven't committed this patch yet because I wanted to see if others have
reasons not to include something like this in the Policy Manual.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7878523..5abe5bb 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ debian-policy (4.3.0.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium

   * Fix reference to FHS section in Policy 9.1.2.
     Thanks to Juuso "Linda" Lapinlampi for the patch.
+  * Add footnote to 2.3 with a list of licenses thought not to require the
+    copying of all copyright notices into the package's copyright file.
+    This was based on discussion between myself and FTP team members.

  -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>  Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:20:30 -0700

diff --git a/policy/ch-archive.rst b/policy/ch-archive.rst
index 72764a9..b8ba081 100644
--- a/policy/ch-archive.rst
+++ b/policy/ch-archive.rst
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ information to be excluded from distributions of binaries built from
 the source.  In such cases, a verbatim copy of its copyright
 information should normally still be included, but need not be if
 creating and maintaining a copy of that information involves
-significant time and effort.
+significant time and effort.  [#]_

 See :ref:`s-copyrightfile` for further details.

@@ -369,6 +369,13 @@ management tools.
    is unable to meet, for example, if the source is unavailable. These
    situations will need to be handled on a case-by-case basis.

+.. [#]
+   Licenses that are not thought to require the copying of all
+   copyright notices into Debian's copyright file include Apache-2.0
+   and the Boost Software License, version 1.0.  Final determination
+   as to whether a package's copyright file is sufficient lies with
+   the FTP team.
+
 .. [#]
    This is an important criterion because we are trying to produce,
    amongst other things, a free Unix.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 4.4.0.0

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 928199@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 15:40:41 +0100
Source: debian-policy
Architecture: source
Version: 4.4.0.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Policy Editors <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Closes: 761219 897217 917431 920355 928199 930666
Changes:
 debian-policy (4.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Sean Whitton ]
   * Policy: Recommend use of dh
     Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
     Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
     Closes: #930666
   * Policy: Permit -b in Vcs-Hg as well as Vcs-Git
     Wording: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
     Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
     Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
     Closes: #897217, #920355
   * Policy: Document versioned Provides:
     Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
     Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
     Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
     Closes: #761219
   * virtual-package-names-list: Add logind, default-logind
     Wording: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
     Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
     Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
     Closes: #917431
   * Add text to header of the virtual packages list describing the
     "(versioned)" annotation.
   * Fix reference to FHS section in Policy 9.1.2.
     Thanks to Juuso "Linda" Lapinlampi for the patch.
   * Process: Rewrite description of 'obsolete' usertag.
   * Process: Add 'stalled' usertag.
   * Add footnote to 2.3 with a list of licenses thought not to require the
     copying of all copyright notices into the package's copyright file
     (Closes: #928199).
     This was based on discussion between myself and FTP team members.
 .
   [ Russ Allbery ]
   * Fix formatting of the debian_revision explanation in Policy 5.6.12.
     Thanks to Emmanuel Arias for the patch.
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