Re: new lmodern package

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't know whether ths is policy compliant - instead I think the
>> license text *must* be in the copyright file.  I suggest to rename the
>
> But this is what is always done with the GPL. The whole license text is
> *never* copied in debian/copyright!

Yes, but only for the common licenses whose text is in
/usr/share/common-licenses: 

,----
| 12.5. Copyright information
| ---------------------------
| 
|      Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
|      and distribution license in the file
|      `/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright'. 
| [...]
|      Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license,
|      the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL should refer to the files
|      `/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD',
|      `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic',
|      `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL', and
|      `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL' respectively, rather than quoting
|      them in the copyright file.
`----

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)