Package: debian-policy Version: 4.7.4.1 Followup-For: Bug #1111126 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
On Sun, 17 May 2026 11:53:29 +0000 [email protected] wrote:> Hello, > I often asked myself if someone at Debian ever checked that behavior > with a lawyer. Yes, the members of the new dfsg-team are aware of that problems. They also discuss it with a lawyer. > It is IMHO not OK to add a default license/copyright to every file that > is not covered by something else. > You can not guarantee that upstream add some new files and the DM is not > aware of them. But those > files then will be covered by the * stanza. This results in kind of > illegal situations. This issue is well-known by the dfsg-team. We check it, too. > Regards, > Christian Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 7.0.4+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled debian-policy depends on no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy recommends: ii libjs-jquery 3.7.1+dfsg+~3.5.33-1 ii libjs-sphinxdoc 9.1.0-3 ii sphinx-rtd-theme-common 3.1.0+dfsg-1 Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base <none> -- no debconf information
