Hello Sam,

On Wed 01 Apr 2020 at 05:11AM -04, Sam Hartman wrote:

> I think there is another use of debian/copyright beyond just documenting
> what ends up in the binaries.
> I think that if I read debian/copyright in a source package, I should
> expect to understand the licenses I need to comply with when dealing
> with the source package.
>
> So for example  if the package requires GPL-3 code during its build, and
> by policy I don't want to deal with GPL-3 I should know I have a problem
> only from reading debian/copyright.
>
>
> So I think you need to talk about more than just binaries.

As I mentioned in my e-mail opening the bug, I do not believe that my
proposal changes anything at all about the requirements to document
licenses in d/copyright, only copyright notices.

Please take another look and let me know if my patch somehow changes the
requirements to document licenses in a way I did not intend.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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