Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hello.
In [1], Joerg Jaspert initiated discussion about including more licenses
in the set of licenses shipped in /usr/share/common-licensed. As part of
the discussion I inquired in [2] about the possibility of adding the GFDL
to that set, given the number of packages that ship some contents under
this license.
Since at least one of the Policy editors, namely Manoj Srivastava,
agreed in [3] that the GFDL passes the criteria for inclusion, I'm now
transforming the mentioned informal discussion into a formal request.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2006/06/msg00100.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2006/06/msg00109.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2006/06/msg00206.html
Attached is a patch with the possible wording for the change.
Also, if somebody wonders as for why the change is not first commited in
the base-files package, and let Policy catch up on reality later: as per
/usr/share/doc/base-files/FAQ, the base-files has delegated that decision
to the Policy editors.
I will submit a bug against base-files after an updated debian-policy is
uploaded, or this bug marked by pending by one of the editors.
Thanks!
--
Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org
We learned that the Linux load average rolls over at 1024. And we
actually found this out empirically.
-- H. Peter Anvin from kernel.org
--- ./policy.sgml~ 2006-07-16 00:14:47.000000000 +0200
+++ ./policy.sgml 2006-07-16 00:17:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -8618,8 +8618,8 @@
<p>
Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic
- license, the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL should refer to the
- corresponding files
+ license, the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL, or ship documentation
+ under the GFDL, should refer to the corresponding files
under<file>/usr/share/common-licenses</file>,<footnote>
<p>
For example,
@@ -8627,6 +8627,7 @@
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD</file>,
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</file>,
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL</file>,
+ <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL</file>,
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2</file>, and
<file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1</file>, and so on.
</p>
