Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Simon McVittie
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

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Tobias Frost
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:

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:44:29AM +, 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

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On 06/11/14 13:02, Bill Allombert wrote: I do not thing that policy allow it, because that break the assumption that the copyright contains all the relevant information. olicy 2.3 below states a verbatim copy which exclude indirections. That's why this is wishlist. I don't think policy does

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On 06/11/14 12:17, Tobias Frost wrote: just maybe another datapoint, as recently there was a similar dicussion on d-devel, the thread started as https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/09/msg00704.html (difference: This was a question brought up by Markus if it is sufficient to referencfe

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Simon McVittie wrote: 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

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Simon McVittie wrote: My understanding is that Markus' question in that thread was orthogonal: is the exact license grant really required, or is the license itself enough? (for terminology see my reply at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/09/msg00708.html). I would also appreciate

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:44:29AM +, Simon McVittie a écrit : 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

Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files

2014-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: within our current practice, the MPL-2.0 license would need to be added to /usr/share/common-licenses to allow quoting it from the Debian copyright file. Last time Russ looked if the license was frequent enough, the answer was no. But you can have a