On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:44:29AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > [X-Debbugs-Cc: ftpmas...@debian.org because I know the Policy maintainers > don't actually control what is or isn't acceptable in the archive in this > respect.] > > Some packages currently have stanzas like this in their copyright files: > > License: MPL-2.0 > The complete text of the Mozilla Public License 2.0 can be found in > the `MPL-2.0' file in the same directory as this file. > > It is not clear to me whether Debian Policy allows this. I would like it > to be specifically allowed, unless there is some good reason not to; if > ftp-master tools like whatever tool generates > <https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html> need to be able to extract these > files, it would be OK to prescribe some fixed naming convention, such as > /usr/share/doc/${package}/${name}.license or (if they are also required > to have a prescribed location in the source package) > debian/${name}.license. > > One package that would benefit from this is adwaita-icon-theme. It currently > has an 87K copyright file[1], mechanically generated from a Perl script[2] > and four verbatim Creative Commons licenses[3] which are re-indented for > copyright-format by the script. If I'd known it was OK to do so, I would > much rather have shipped those four licenses as-is and just made the > copyright file refer to them.
Note the iceweasel copyright file uses that stanza for both MPL-1.1 and MPL-2.0, and is still about 100K long. Even if MPL-2.0 ends up in the common set of licenses, that would still leave the MPL-1.1 being a problem, while, in fact, it's barely relevant: all the code under the MPL-1.1 is either dual or tri-licensed with LGPL-2.1 as an alternative. So, I would still hate to have to put the verbatim MPL-1.1 text in the iceweasel copyright file. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141108232158.ga17...@glandium.org