Bug#955005: Relax requirements to copy copyright notices into d/copyright

To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>, 955005@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#955005: Relax requirements to copy copyright notices into d/copyright
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 05:11:34 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] tsltv23in95.fsf@suchdamage.org>
Reply-to: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>, 955005@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <87zhc3qck7.fsf@iris.silentflame.com> (Sean Whitton's message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:57:12 -0700")
References: <87zhc3qck7.fsf@iris.silentflame.com> <87zhc3qck7.fsf@iris.silentflame.com>

I think there is another use of debian/copyright beyond just documenting
what ends up in the binaries.
I think that if I read debian/copyright in a source package, I should
expect to understand the licenses I need to comply with when dealing
with the source package.

So for example  if the package requires GPL-3 code during its build, and
by policy I don't want to deal with GPL-3 I should know I have a problem
only from reading debian/copyright.


So I think you need to talk about more than just binaries.

--Sam

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