Erick Branderhorst writes ("Re: /usr/doc/copyright/<package> -> /usr/doc/<package>/copyright ?"): ... > But a /usr/doc/copyright dir should remain. The only contents allowed in > there would be generic copyright messages like GPL LGPL BSD and so on. > Putting these generic files in /usr/doc/base/{GPL,LGPL,BSD} is not wise > IMHO. Additionally because translated version of the above generic > copyright messages are on the net and it might be usefull to put these > translations there as well. This specific group of files justify to have a > directory for them selves IMHO. I don't mind that these are gzipped.
That seems reasonable to me. We should leave a README there pointing people to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright. Ian.