While rewriting the debian/copyright file for debian-policy in the new 1.0
format, I noticed that the complete license statement for the debconf
specification actually in the document is:
<legalnotice>
<para>
This text is copyright by the authors under the terms of the
BSD license, sans advertising clause.
</para>
</legalnotice>
This isn't really the greatest license practice. :) So I'd like to fix
this. I think the best fix is to stick the next of the BSD license in the
legal notice (which is unfortunate, since it's a bit long, but it feels
like the best thing to do).
I assume that the terms of the license that's attempting to state is the
three-clause BSD license:
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of the Debian Project nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS
IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR
CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Does just sticking that into the <legalnotice> make sense to everyone? Is
there something I should do instead? (Notice clause 3 above; that was my
guess as to what to fill into the BSD template for this document.)
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Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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