Package: base-files Version: 7.2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello,
the base-files FAQ refers to a sentence about licenses that does not appear any more in the Debian policy. The following patch updates that sentence and suggests the reader to have a look at the discussion of bug #620674 for more details. Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci diff -ur base-files/base-files-7.2/debian/README base-files.new/base-files-7.2/debian/README --- base-files/base-files-7.2/debian/README 2012-12-12 11:00:00.000000000 +0000 +++ base-files.new/base-files-7.2/debian/README 2013-09-17 09:01:50.382857000 +0000 @@ -67,13 +67,16 @@ A. I delegate such decisions to the policy group. If you want to propose a new license you should make a policy proposal to modify the -paragraph in policy saying "Packages distributed under the UCB BSD -license, Artistic license, GNU GPL and GNU LGPL should refer to the -files in /usr/share/common-licenses". The way of doing this is +paragraph in policy saying "For certain common free software licenses +([...]), you can just refer to the appropriate file in the +/usr/share/common-licenses/ directory". The way of doing this is explained in the debian-policy package. As usual, you should always take a look at already reported bugs against debian-policy before submitting a new one. +Note 1: The discussion in bug #620674 describes under which conditions +a license can be considered common enough to be included. + Q. I upgraded from woody to sarge. Should my system be FHS-compliant now? A. Achieving FHS compliance by upgrading would be tricky and prone to -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
