Re: Inconsistent assertions about copyright notices

2009-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> Have we reached any consensus otherwise? There's been some discussion, >> but I've not seen anything definitive > The discussions were rather one-sided, with one side (largely, me) > presenting arguments that Policy should require copyright notices t

Re: Inconsistent assertions about copyright notices

2009-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:40:33AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > This is "(copyright) and (distribution license)", where "copyright" > > should be understood as "copyright statement". > > It sounds like you may have been reading this as "(copyright and > > distribution) license". > Yes. I don't se

Re: Inconsistent assertions about copyright notices

2009-08-27 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:24:05AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Policy §12.5, “Copyright information”, appears to be the complete > > set of direct normative statements of what's required: > > > 12.5. Copyright information > > --- > > >

Re: Inconsistent assertions about copyright notices

2009-08-27 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > Both of these seem to imply that copyright notices need to be in > > ‘debian/copyright’, but §12.5 doesn't say that at all. Am I right > > that these assertions in §3.4 and §3.9.1 are false and should be > > removed? > > Well, they're correct that co

Re: Inconsistent assertions about copyright notices

2009-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:24:05AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > In light of recent discussion [0] about ‘debian/copyright’ and what a > Debian package should include in that file, I would like to see some > clean-up of the current (residual?) assertions of what needs to be > included. > Policy §12.5

Re: Inconsistent assertions about copyright notices

2009-08-27 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Howdy all, > > In light of recent discussion [0] about ‘debian/copyright’ and what a > Debian package should include in that file Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for pointing out the unresolved reference here. The discussions I'm referring to are: [0] http://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: Inconsistent assertions about copyright notices

2009-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > In light of recent discussion [0] about ‘debian/copyright’ and what a ENOFOOTNOTE > Debian package should include in that file, I would like to see some > clean-up of the current (residual?) assertions of what needs to be > included. > There are side references that seem t

Inconsistent assertions about copyright notices

2009-08-27 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, In light of recent discussion [0] about ‘debian/copyright’ and what a Debian package should include in that file, I would like to see some clean-up of the current (residual?) assertions of what needs to be included. Policy §12.5, “Copyright information”, appears to be the complete set