On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:41:07PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > the current defined purpose of the copyright file apparently is only to > cover copyrights and licensing or _source_.
That's not true. The purpose of the copyright file has *always* been to ensure that the license for a given binary package is correctly documented in that package. It's just that the safest way to ensure this is by documenting the entire license for the source package in debian/copyright and copying that file to each of the binary packages. Unfortunately we took a wrong turn somewhere and started considering debian/copyright itself the requirement, and that's a *bug*. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
