> Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > [X-Debbugs-Cc: ftpmas...@debian.org because I know the Policy maintainers > don't actually control what is or isn't acceptable in the archive in this > respect.] > > Some packages currently have stanzas like this in their copyright files: > > License: MPL-2.0 > The complete text of the Mozilla Public License 2.0 can be found in > the `MPL-2.0' file in the same directory as this file. > > It is not clear to me whether Debian Policy allows this. I would like it > to be specifically allowed, unless there is some good reason not to; if > ftp-master tools like whatever tool generates > <https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html> need to be able to extract these > files, it would be OK to prescribe some fixed naming convention, such as > /usr/share/doc/${package}/${name}.license or (if they are also required > to have a prescribed location in the source package) > debian/${name}.license. > > One package that would benefit from this is adwaita-icon-theme. It currently > has an 87K copyright file[1], mechanically generated from a Perl script[2] > and four verbatim Creative Commons licenses[3] which are re-indented for > copyright-format by the script. If I'd known it was OK to do so, I would > much rather have shipped those four licenses as-is and just made the > copyright file refer to them. > > If the licenses are allowed to be compressed (see also [4]) then > so much the better. > > Regards, > S > > [1] > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/adwaita-icon-theme/debian/copyright?revision=43390&view=markup > [2] > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/adwaita-icon-theme/debian/copyright.pl?revision=43390&view=markup > [3] > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/adwaita-icon-theme/debian/ > [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491055 >
Hi Simon, just maybe another datapoint, as recently there was a similar dicussion on d-devel, the thread started as https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/09/msg00704.html (difference: This was a question brought up by Markus if it is sufficient to referencfe to the common licenses) Though I think this discussion did not end with some concrete conclusion... -- tobi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/4b96861160e7798487545418b4e039f3.squir...@isengard.geekcommandos.com
