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  1. Bug #907888
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 907888

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Charlie_Smotherman (cjsmo) wrote :

If you are going to use DEP5 copyright format then please implement it correctly.

Upstream-Format:
has been replaced with just
Format:

Format URL should be http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

Files: *
Copyright: (C) 2011 Canonical Ltd.

should be

Files: *
Copyright 2011 Canonical Ltd.
License: LGPL-3

and this is just plain wrong:
License: LGPL-3
 The full text of the LGPL is distributed in
 /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-3 on Debian systems.

At a min the License preable should be given and then the releavent file sourced as a Comment.

http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#license-specification states:

"Use of a standard short name does not override the Debian Policy requirement to include the full license text in debian/copyright, nor any requirements in the license of the work regarding reproduction of legal notices. This information must still be included in the License field, either in a stand-alone License paragraph or in the relevant files paragraph."