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



On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 7:18:42 PM EDT Guillem Jover wrote:
> > +#. the distribution license for those files requires that copyright
> > +   information be included in all copies and/or binary distributions;
> 
> I'm assuming the entire list is supposed to hold at the same time? If
> so perhaps adding an «and» here would make this completely unambiguous.

Actually I think it would be the opposite.  If we had:

> +   information be included in all copies and binary distributions;

then I can see people claiming that since $LICENSE didn't explicitly require 
copyright information in both copies and binaries, they didn't have to do it.

Keep in mind the example license text that I used to frame this part of the 
proposed change:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
> all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

I think what you are proposing would produce the opposite of the desired 
policy.  If you don't like and/or, then I think or is better:

> +   information be included in all copies or binary distributions;

Scott K

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