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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2019-04-29 11:16:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2019-06-24 17:20:56 +0100 |
| commit | 0701614e32aec2ff17d5401f93203834e81d29a3 (patch) | |
| tree | e8a10d1eab39a8e5f43ab3044993f8ab14e3b2e6 | |
| parent | 282da7bc2c1ee2785387bd485c3c7d5985e8a6a7 (diff) | |
List of licenses that don't require gathering all copyright notices
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | policy/ch-archive.rst | 9 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 955a789..8e6b143 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ debian-policy (4.3.0.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium Thanks to Juuso "Linda" Lapinlampi for the patch. * Process: Rewrite description of 'obsolete' usertag. * Process: Add 'stalled' usertag. + * Add footnote to 2.3 with a list of licenses thought not to require the + copying of all copyright notices into the package's copyright file + (Closes: #928199). + This was based on discussion between myself and FTP team members. [ Russ Allbery ] * Fix formatting of the debian_revision explanation in Policy 5.6.12. diff --git a/policy/ch-archive.rst b/policy/ch-archive.rst index 72764a9..b8ba081 100644 --- a/policy/ch-archive.rst +++ b/policy/ch-archive.rst @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ information to be excluded from distributions of binaries built from the source. In such cases, a verbatim copy of its copyright information should normally still be included, but need not be if creating and maintaining a copy of that information involves -significant time and effort. +significant time and effort. [#]_ See :ref:`s-copyrightfile` for further details. @@ -370,5 +370,12 @@ management tools. situations will need to be handled on a case-by-case basis. .. [#] + Licenses that are not thought to require the copying of all + copyright notices into Debian's copyright file include Apache-2.0 + and the Boost Software License, version 1.0. Final determination + as to whether a package's copyright file is sufficient lies with + the FTP team. + +.. [#] This is an important criterion because we are trying to produce, amongst other things, a free Unix. |