Iceape progress

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sun Nov 5 14:11:43 CET 2006


On 2006-11-05 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:49:43PM +0100, Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
[...]
> > - Stop shipping MPL in a separate file in /usr/share/doc/* and append
> >   its contents to debian/copyright instead. Policy 12.5 is quite clear
> >   on that the license must be *included* in debian/copyright.

> The license is GPL/LGPL/MPL, and the copyright file is already huge.
> Considering that, I think it is not a problem to ship one of the
> licenses' text file separately. We already do the same for xulrunner and
> firefox.
[...]

Well, adding the copy of the MPL on the bottom of debian/copyright
will not make it less readable imvho, and it will fix a possibly
serious bug. Policy *really* is clear:

| Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
| and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright.
[...]
| Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license,
| the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL, should refer to the corresponding files
| under /usr/share/common-licenses,[82] rather than quoting them in the
| copyright file.

I would just hate if an iceape upload got rejected because of this.

cu andreas
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