Bill Allombert [29/Oct 9:06am GMT] wrote: > This are only blockers in the mind of the LLM, Debian policy does not > require to list all copyright holders, instead it says: > > 2.3. Copyright considerations > ============================= > > Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its > distribution license(s) in the file > "/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/copyright". > > The copyright information for files in a package must be copied > verbatim into "/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/copyright", when all of the > following hold: > > 1. the distribution license for those files requires that copyright > information be included in all copies and/or binary distributions; > > 2. the files are shipped in the binary package, either in source or > compiled form; and > > 3. the form in which the files are present in the binary package does > not include a plain text version of their copyright notices. > > Thus, the copyright information for files in the source package which > are only part of its build process, such as autotools files, need not > be included in "/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/copyright", because those files > do not get installed into the binary package. Similarly, plain text > files which include their own copyright information and are installed > into the binary package unmodified need not have that copyright > information copied into "/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/copyright"
Yes. The Policy text you quote should be part of the LLM's prompt. I was a NEW queue processor myself when I wrote it and it was signed off on by other FTP team members. It's accurate and important. > So at least > >> - **Kitware, Inc.** (CMake files) >> - **Nokia** (1 test file) >> - **SUSE LLC** (RPM spec) > > are not blocker at all. > > This LLM fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of debian/copyright. > There is no way it can give useful report about it. Improving its prompt would probably go a long way. The new DFSG team don't tend to engage with threads like this about their work, which I find very concerning. I hope they'll respond here; CCing them. -- Sean Whitton
