control: tag -1 + patch Hello, On Thu 26 Mar 2020 at 09:57AM -07, Sean Whitton wrote: > The relevant parts of Policy to update are §§ 2.3, 4.5 and 12.5. Here's a patch for seconding, and for the FTP Team to approve. Thanks to Scott for prompting the "all copies" amendation. There could probably be some useful re-organisation and deduplication between §§ 2.3, 4.5 and 12.5, but as that's non-normative, let's get this change committed first. diff --git a/policy/ch-archive.rst b/policy/ch-archive.rst index b8ba081..4217dd4 100644 --- a/policy/ch-archive.rst +++ b/policy/ch-archive.rst @@ -184,15 +184,32 @@ Copyright considerations ------------------------ Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its -distribution license in the file ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``. - -Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright -information, unless its distribution license explicitly permits this -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. [#]_ +distribution license(s) in the file ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``. + +The copyright information for files in a package must be copied +verbatim into ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``, when + +#. the distribution license for those files requires that copyright + information be included in all copies and/or binary distributions; + +#. the files are shipped in the binary package, either in source or + compiled form; and + +#. the form in which the files are present in the binary package does + not include a plain text version of their copyright notices. + +Thus, the copyright information for files in the source package which +are only part of its build process, such as autotools files, need not +be included in ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``, because those +files do not get installed into the binary package. Similarly, plain +text files which include their own copyright information and are +installed into the binary package unmodified need not have that +copyright information copied into ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright`` + +However, the copyright notices for any files which are compiled into +the object code shipped in the binary package must all be included in +d/copyright when the license requires that copyright information be +included in all copies and/or binary distributions, as most do. [#]_ See :ref:`s-copyrightfile` for further details. diff --git a/policy/ch-docs.rst b/policy/ch-docs.rst index b466304..3e797d6 100644 --- a/policy/ch-docs.rst +++ b/policy/ch-docs.rst @@ -181,10 +181,13 @@ maintainer's discretion. Copyright information --------------------- -Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright -information and distribution license in the file -``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``. This file must neither be -compressed nor be a symbolic link. +Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its +distribution license(s) in the file ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``. +This file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link. + +A verbatim copy of the package's copyright information is often +required to be present in ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``, too; +see :ref:`s-pkgcopyright`. In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) were obtained, and should include a name or contact address for the diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst index 1a4e871..7644a27 100644 --- a/policy/ch-source.rst +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst @@ -211,9 +211,9 @@ Copyright: ``debian/copyright`` ------------------------------- Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its -distribution license in the file ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``. +distribution license(s) in the file ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``. -This file is usually required to contain a verbatim copy of the +This file is often required to contain a verbatim copy of the package's copyright information, too; see :ref:`s-copyrightfile` and :ref:`s-pkgcopyright` for details, and for further considerations related to copyrights for packages. -- Sean Whitton
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