My previous copy of this email was truncated due to:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057758
This copy removes a bunch of the quoted text to make it go through. ;(
On Saturday, March 8, 2025 8:21:32 AM MST Peter B wrote:
> I'm not at all sure about this.
> It seems to me that the Policy wording is ambiguous,
> as I would interpret "copyright information" to imply both the copyright
> notice/statement and the license itself.
Policy 22.8 is not ambiguous, which is the release that added the option to not include all copyright information in debian/copyright (previously all copyright information was required). When this change was made, they specifically said:
“Note that there is no change to the requirement to copy *all licensing information* into /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/copyright.”
I do agree that without this statement in 22.8 it would be ambiguous.
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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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