tag 688251 patch thanks Le Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:57:34AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I would like to make the short-term clarification for the next revision of the > Policy. In its simplest form, it could be the addition of something like > "when > the combination of licenses requires to keep all the sources", plus a footnote > informing that the case of the libc and libgcc are being investigated, and > that > the current practice is to consider that we can benefit form their exception > to > the GPL.
Dear all, do you think that the attached patch would solve the problem ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>From e5bed2a92f642a9068ac4261c01d111b50a0b292 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:26:31 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Policy: underline that Built-Using is only to be used when license requires. Closes: #688251 --- policy.sgml | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 113429b..e0b36a7 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -5563,7 +5563,13 @@ Replaces: mail-transport-agent </p> <p> - A <tt>Built-Using</tt> field must list the corresponding source + When the licensing terms of the incorporated parts require to provide + their source <footnote> + As of September 2013, the current practice in Debian is to consider + that we can benefit from the GPL exceptions for the libc, GCC and + similar packages. + </footnote>, + a <tt>Built-Using</tt> field must list the corresponding source package for any such binary package incorporated during the build <footnote> <tt>Build-Depends</tt> in the source package is not adequate since -- 1.8.4.rc3
