* Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>, 2010-06-10, 13:13:
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.
Seconded. -- Jakub Wilk
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