Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > What you probably complain about is this: > > Your debian/copyright file must contain the following information: > > - The author(s) name > - The year(s) of the copyright > - The used license(s) > - The URL to the upstream source > > In many packages there is more than one author, more than one > copyright-holder and more than one license. Do not miss to list them > all, even if that other license is just for one file. Yes, any > single file is important. > > This very strict rule was re-confirmed a few hours ago by one of the > Project's archive administrators.
Thank you. Can we please have a public, canonical reference to this? > This is not in the DEP, and I dislike it as much as you and others. Right. I don't know where the idea came from that DEP 5 creates this requirement, but I'm glad to see corroboration that it didn't originate in DEP 5. Maybe now this discussion about existing requirements for *content* can be properly separated from discussion about a proposed file *format*. -- \ “I have an answering machine in my car. It says, ‘I'm home now. | `\ But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.’” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org