From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:10:26 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Do not tell packagers to reference /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0741d66e7f000bf5052f82dc7d935ce993b665c6;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git

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 87b9795..02d6f8d 100644
--- 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.