From: Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@canonical.com> Claims that the policy never meant copyright notices were supposed to be included in debian/copyright in the first place only muddle the discussion.
This says “copyright information” instead of “copyright notices” because as long as the information is there, it doesn’t matter if it has exactly the same formatting. For example, combining the dates from multiple copyright notices is a common practice. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> --- Hi Charles, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:33:29PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > > Packages must include a […] lack-of-copyright statement > > in debian/copyright. > > Hi Jonathan, > > That sounds new to me. Good catch; removed. > Where is it requested that works in the public domain > must be documented as such in debian/copyright ? Nowhere I know of. But it is not a new idea: see for example http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.motu/740/focus=742 Note that I did not think that every small work in the public domain included in a package must be documented. I had only assumed that if the package is in the public domain, the policy was that that is supposed to be documented in debian/copyright (to at least put the reader at ease). Kind regards, Jonathan policy.sgml | 10 +++++----- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 76ac0d4..ea3ed35 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -569,8 +569,8 @@ <heading>Copyright considerations</heading> <p> - Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of - its copyright and distribution license in the file + Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its + copyright information and distribution license in the file <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</file> (see <ref id="copyrightfile"> for further details). </p> @@ -1638,8 +1638,8 @@ <sect id="dpkgcopyright"> <heading>Copyright: <file>debian/copyright</file></heading> <p> - Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of - its copyright and distribution license in the file + Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its + copyright information and distribution license in the file <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</file> (see <ref id="copyrightfile"> for further details). Also see <ref id="pkgcopyright"> for further considerations related @@ -9108,7 +9108,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY <p> Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its - copyright and distribution license in the file + copyright information and distribution license in the file <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</file>. This file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link. </p> -- 1.7.0.rc1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
