Le Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:43:25AM -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > 1) The description of the License field says: > > >Otherwise, this field should either include the full text of the > > >license(s) or include a pointer to the license file under > > >`/usr/share/common-licenses`. > > > > This could be interpreted as if just the pointer would be enough, which is > > however (AFAIU) not what is meant by the policy 12.5, which says a verbatim > > copy must be included and the pointer is (AFAIU) just something that should > > be given in addition?! > > Packages distributed under the Apache license (version 2.0), the > Artistic license, the GNU GPL (versions 1, 2, or 3), the GNU LGPL > (versions 2, 2.1, or 3), and the GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3) should > refer to the corresponding files under `/usr/share/common-licenses',[1] > rather than quoting them in the copyright file.
Actually, the Policy does not contain all our requirements for debian/copyright files (#462996) and the following announce suggests that when license headers are available, they should be reproduced: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110521132602.gb5...@merveille.plessy.net
