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and subject line Re: Bug#477568: base-files: common-licenses/BSD declares a
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has caused the Debian Bug report #477568,
regarding base-files: common-licenses/BSD declares a copyright which does not
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Package: base-files
Version: 4.0.3
Severity: serious
The base-files package includes the three-clause BSD license, however, it
asserts the following copyright:
Copyright (c) The Regents of the University of California.
This copyright should be removed, as it is not valid for most packages in
Debian: most BSD-licensed software is not copyright by the copyright holders
of BSD itself.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.17 Debian base system master password
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-11 a pattern scanning and text proces
base-files recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, William Pitcock wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 4.0.3
> Severity: serious
>
> The base-files package includes the three-clause BSD license, however, it
> asserts the following copyright:
>
> Copyright (c) The Regents of the University of California.
>
> This copyright should be removed, as it is not valid for most packages in
> Debian: most BSD-licensed software is not copyright by the copyright holders
> of BSD itself.
IMHO, the wording indicates that this has never been a generic BSD license,
but a BSD license for works from the University of California. In fact,
debian-policy says "UCB BSD license".
If you want to change this, get a consensus on debian-policy first, as
explained in base-files FAQ. You may reopen and reassign to
debian-policy if you wish.
Thanks.
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