Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference

[Holger Levsen]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 08:26:08PM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:
> From 5be219aae8b8352ec42e89a9ec71bbe853a33f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Bastian Germann <b...@debian.org>
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:22:54 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Disallow referencing /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
> 
> All references in the archive's copyright files were removed.
> 
> Closes: #1120935
> ---
>  debian/changelog   | 1 +
>  policy/ch-docs.rst | 5 ++---
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
> index 945b77b..2407c9c 100644
> --- a/debian/changelog
> +++ b/debian/changelog
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ debian-policy (4.7.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
>    * Avoid a double negative when describing the restriction on network
>      access during the build.  Thanks to Niels Thyker and Bill Allombert
>      for suggested wording.  (Closes: #1092762)
> +  * Disallow referencing /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD.  (Closes: #1120935)
>  
>   -- Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>  Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:03:39 -0800
>  
> diff --git a/policy/ch-docs.rst b/policy/ch-docs.rst
> index 6167342..815a941 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-docs.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-docs.rst
> @@ -378,12 +378,11 @@ please see :ref:`s-dpkgchangelog`.
>     ``/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.3``,
>     ``/usr/share/common-licenses/MPL-1.1``, and
>     ``/usr/share/common-licenses/MPL-2.0`` respectively. The University
> -   of California BSD license is also included in base-files as
> +   of California BSD license used to be included in base-files as
>     ``/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD``, but given the brevity of this
>     license, its specificity to code whose copyright is held by the
>     Regents of the University of California, and the frequency of minor
> -   wording changes, its text should be included in the copyright file
> -   rather than referencing this file.
> +   wording changes, its text has included in the copyright file.
>  
>  .. [#]
>     Rationale: People should not have to look in places for upstream

thanks, seconded.


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cheers,
        Holger

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Ich bin ja für Einwanderung in unsere Sozialsysteme. Egoistisch,  zugegeben,
aber ich habe auch nicht mehr soo lange bis zur Rente. (@annalist)

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