- Added a copyright entry, src/md5.c is public domain.
It is not. As https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-
format/1.0/ says:
Widespread misunderstanding about copyright in general, and the public
domain in particular,
results in the common assertion that a work is in the public domain when
this is partly or
wholly untrue for that work. The Wikipedia article on public domain is a
useful reference
for this subject.
There is no provision under US copyright law for a copyright holder to
grant a work to the public domain. Legally a work only enters the
public domain only when copyright term lapses, or if it is a government
work to which no copyright is attached.
What you can say here is that:
- the copyright holder is waiving all of their rights under copyright
- the work can be treated AS IF it is in the public domain because that is the
copyright holder's intent
but the copyright still EXISTS and the debian copyright format still
expects you to document this, including the use of the Copyright: field
- which, because it is missing here, means the file does not parse
correctly according to the standard.
Furthermore, changing debian/copyright in an SRU upload whose changelog
says that it is a backport, without also changing it in the devel
series, is a bad call.
** Changed in: involflt (Ubuntu Focal)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
** Tags added: verification-needed-focal
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