[SCM] Debian Science Policy Manual branch, master, updated. 9a5e36c23fa879cb4d59b753a98306250faac9f8

Manuel Prinz debian at pinguinkiste.de
Thu Jun 19 21:53:33 UTC 2008


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 7b321a6b50cb10e4f164f297a0dc1c2fc9c0ca8c
Author: Manuel Prinz <debian at pinguinkiste.de>
Date:   Thu Jun 19 23:02:14 2008 +0200

    Clarifying section on choice of license for packaging work
    
    See http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/05/msg00223.html

diff --git a/debian-science-policy.xml b/debian-science-policy.xml
index 8a0f33a..e0fb9e9 100644
--- a/debian-science-policy.xml
+++ b/debian-science-policy.xml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
     <sect2>
       <title><filename>debian/copyright</filename></title>
       <para>The <ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat">machine-readable format</ulink> must be used.</para>
-      <para>The license of the packaging work should either match the license of the upstream sources or have a license that is compatible with the upstream license.</para>
+      <para>The license of the packaging work should either match the license of the upstream sources or have a license that is even more free than the upstream license. For example, you should avoid licensing your packaging work under GPL if the upstream license is BSD, even though they are compatible.</para>
     </sect2>
     <sect2>
       <title><filename>debian/watch</filename></title>

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