This proposal asks to relax the requirements for debian/copyright to permit pointers to info docs that contain the relevant license.
There are a few problems with this, some of which were spelled out in the resulting thread. It prevents easily extracting all the relevant copyright files from a set of packages and it weakens the current guarantees that the copyright file is where all the relevant information is. Also, on the practical front, the GFDL is now in common-licenses, and that's the most common case where a license would be in an info document, so the problem is now mostly theoretical. For those reasons, I'm rejecting this proposal. It was not widely discussed at the time it was proposed (2003), so this is a soft rejection, meaning that if someone feels strongly about this proposal and wants to step forward to champion it again, I'd be willing to reopen the bug. However, I expect it would encounter a fair bit of opposition unless there's a compelling practical case for changing the current rules. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
