Le Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:37:08PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > If we distribute a package with ‘debian/copyright’ so that it > deliberately differs from upstream in this regard, are we not > violating policy §12.5 “Every package must be accompanied by a > verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license in the file > `/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright'.”?
Hi Ben, I think that this paragraph refers to the full text of the licence, for which the GPL version 2 has an exception that allows debian/copyright to point only to /usr/share/common-licenses. Of course, one can argue that this does not solve the problem, since /usr/share/common-license does not contain the old GPL version 2, but the FSF did not increment its version number for the address change, therefore I do not think that we are doing wrong. So I think that the GPL is a double exception. For the license that are not listed in §12.5, the requirement of verbatim copy would indeed disallow mending any contact address. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
