Do not tell packagers to reference /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD

Remove the University of California BSD license from the list of
licenses that should be represented by references to
/usr/share/common-licenses and explain in the footnote why packages
should copy the license text instead.

Part of the resolution of Bug#284340.

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 87b979539b7b5dc0603299d60a24eb63812bc2bc..02d6f8d935c95755c28f16fe6d369854e42fad2d 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9227,14 +9227,13 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
        </p>
 
        <p>
-         Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Apache
-         license (version 2.0), the Artistic license, the GNU GPL
-         (version 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 <file>/usr/share/common-licenses</file>,<footnote>
+         Packages distributed under the Apache license (version 2.0), the
+         Artistic license, the GNU GPL (version 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 <file>/usr/share/common-licenses</file>,<footnote>
            <p>
              In particular,
-              <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD</file>,
               <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0</file>,
               <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic</file>,
               <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2</file>,
@@ -9244,7 +9243,14 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
               <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-3</file>,
               <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.2</file>, and
               <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.3</file>
-              respectively.
+             respectively.  The University of California BSD license is
+             also included in <package>base-files</package> as
+             <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD</file>, but given the
+             brevity of this license, its specificity to code whose
+             copyright is held by the Regents of the Univesrity of
+             California, and the frequency of minor wording changes, its
+             text should be included in the copyright file rather than
+             referencing this file.
             </p>
           </footnote> rather than quoting them in the copyright
          file.