Yaroslav Halchenko <deb...@onerussian.com> writes: > quick one -- where to place "public domain" -- into Copyright or > License?
> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ > kinda suggests to use short license name "public-domain" within License: > field. But also it suggests that Copyright is the correct place for > such information (which I agree with, since being "public domain" is > about ownership, not description of the use terms) I think public domain in the Debian DEP-5 context is a license. While it's not legally a license, the public domain status serves the same purpose: telling people what rights they have to use the work. So I would do something like: License: public-domain <insert here the exact wording from upstream explaining why the work is in the public domain> You do need some sort of statement about why the work is in the public domain, since that's a rather unusual status and requires some justification (such as that it's a US government work). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/871uxkygh7....@windlord.stanford.edu
