On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:16:44PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Except that debtags are right now for binary packages, whereas > > copyright is for source packages. > > Err, not quite right: > > Policy 4.5: > > Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and > > distribution license in the file */usr/share/doc/package/copyright*[...] > > Policy 12.5:
You are totally overlooking the reality of copyright files. Yes, policy states that each binary package comes with a license, but I believe you know that maintainers write exactly one copyright file per *source* package which is then copied verbatim in each binary generated by that source. The reason is really simple: licenses and copyrights apply to source files, which then get blended together (via linking usually, but can be a lot of other processes) into binary packages. There is no fully general and sane way to distribute copyright / licensing information to binary files, and hence packages. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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