Le Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:48:48PM +0900, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > Questions for my -policy friends: can I conclude from the above that the > Disclaimer field is to be used _only_ for contrib/non-free packages, and > only to explain the reason of their (transitive) non-free-ness? Or is > there a risk of overloading it for other reasons? (The current text > implies it is not, but the name is a bit generic, and I prefer safe over > sorry.)
Hi Stefano, this use was my intent in 2008 when I added this field, following the release of version 3.8.0.0 of our Policy, that closed bug #65577 asking that “copyright should include notice if a package is not a part of Debian distribution”. https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?action=diff&rev1=183&rev2=184 I do not remember if I wanted the Disclaimer field to be exclusively used for statements that packages are not part of the Debian distribution. In any case, a quick inspection of the Debian copyright files in the “packages-metadata” repository show that the field is also being used for other purposes. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140328001251.ga21...@falafel.plessy.net
