Bug#704303: violates Debian Policy 2.3 Copyright considerations

[Sandro Knauß]

severity 704303 serious
thanks

Hey,

Iceweasel's `/usr/share/doc/iceweasel/copyright' file says:

| The complete text of the Mozilla Public License can be found in
| the `MPL' file in the same directory as this file.

the Debian Policy 2.3 is clear about the license text in d/copyright:

"Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright 
information and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/
copyright"

and 12.5:
"Packages distributed under the Apache license (version 2.0), the Artistic 
license, the GNU GPL (versions 1, 2, or 3), the GNU LGPL (versions 2, 2.1, or 
3), and the GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3) should refer to the corresponding 
files under /usr/share/common-licenses,[119] rather than quoting them in the 
copyright file. "

So not shipping the full text of the MPL inside d/copyright violates the 
debian policy 2.3 and 12.5 - a link to a local file is not enough. I discussed 
that in debian-devel and other had the same interpretation of the debian 
policy, too.

So please copy the complete text of  the MPL into d/copyright to fullfill the 
debian policy.

Regards,

sandro