Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.3.0.3
Severity: normal
User: debian-pol...@packages.debian.org
Usertags: informative
Tags: patch
Hello,
I've written a patch to add a footnote with a list of licenses that are
thought not to require the copying of all copyright notices into
Debian's copyright file.
This does not need seconding, because footnotes are not normative, but I
haven't committed this patch yet because I wanted to see if others have
reasons not to include something like this in the Policy Manual.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7878523..5abe5bb 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ debian-policy (4.3.0.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* Fix reference to FHS section in Policy 9.1.2.
Thanks to Juuso "Linda" Lapinlampi for the patch.
+ * Add footnote to 2.3 with a list of licenses thought not to require the
+copying of all copyright notices into the package's copyright file.
+This was based on discussion between myself and FTP team members.
-- Sean Whitton Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:20:30 -0700
diff --git a/policy/ch-archive.rst b/policy/ch-archive.rst
index 72764a9..b8ba081 100644
--- a/policy/ch-archive.rst
+++ b/policy/ch-archive.rst
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ information to be excluded from distributions of binaries
built from
the source. In such cases, a verbatim copy of its copyright
information should normally still be included, but need not be if
creating and maintaining a copy of that information involves
-significant time and effort.
+significant time and effort. [#]_
See :ref:`s-copyrightfile` for further details.
@@ -369,6 +369,13 @@ management tools.
is unable to meet, for example, if the source is unavailable. These
situations will need to be handled on a case-by-case basis.
+.. [#]
+ Licenses that are not thought to require the copying of all
+ copyright notices into Debian's copyright file include Apache-2.0
+ and the Boost Software License, version 1.0. Final determination
+ as to whether a package's copyright file is sufficient lies with
+ the FTP team.
+
.. [#]
This is an important criterion because we are trying to produce,
amongst other things, a free Unix.
--
Sean Whitton
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