[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#860210: starjava-topcat: Incomplete debian/copyright?

[Ole Streicher]

Hi Chris,

Am 13.04.2017 um 09:10 schrieb Chris Lamb:
>>                        Remove-edu.jhu.htm-reference.patch just removes
>> the link to a package that has a non-free license. For reference, this
>> license is given in the patch, but it is *not* the license of the patch.
>> The patch is licensed along with the main license of the package (LGPL-2.1).
> 
> Please clarify this bit in debian/copyright so that our derivatives (etc.)
> can see this.

I am surprised that it isn't clear: d/copyright already clearly
documents the license and the copyright of the patch. There is no reason
to document the purpose of the patch in d/copyright (that is documented
in the patch itself), so what should be clarified there?

Maybe I should just change the wording in the patch description itself
to clarify that the cited license is not the license of the patch?
(I thought that was obvious, however?)

Best regards

Ole