[med-svn] r15340 - trunk/community/website/docs

[Charles Plessy]

Author: plessy
Date: 2013-11-30 04:07:25 +0000 (Sat, 30 Nov 2013)
New Revision: 15340

Modified:
   trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Comment that the source URL is sometimes used as a bookmark for copyright checks.


Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2013-11-30 04:04:28 UTC (rev 15339)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2013-11-30 04:07:25 UTC (rev 15340)
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@
 		<sect2 id="debian-copyright">
 			<title><filename>debian/copyright</filename></title>
 			<para>
-				We use the <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/">machine-readable format</ulink> for the <filename>debian/copyright</filename> file. The <computeroutput>Source</computeroutput> field does not need to contain the full URL to the particular version that is being packaged, since this can be determined by the <command>uscan</command> program with the <filename>debian/watch</filename> file. Please list yourself in the <computeroutput>Files: debian/*</computeroutput> section if you think that your contributions are not trivial and therefore subjected to copyright. Please chose a license that is compatible with the program you package. You can also use <quote>same as if it were in the public domain</quote> or <quote>same as the packaged program itself</quote>. 
+				We use the <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/">machine-readable format</ulink> for the <filename>debian/copyright</filename> file. The <computeroutput>Source</computeroutput> field does not need to contain the full URL to the particular version that is being packaged, since this can be determined by the <command>uscan</command> program with the <filename>debian/watch</filename> file (but note that some packagers use it as a bookmark to record when was the last copyright check). Please list yourself in the <computeroutput>Files: debian/*</computeroutput> section if you think that your contributions are not trivial and therefore subjected to copyright. Please chose a license that is compatible with the program you package. You can also use <quote>same as if it were in the public domain</quote> or <quote>same as the packaged program itself</quote>. 
 			</para>
 			<para>
 				To create some reasonable skeleton for a <filename>debian/copyright</filename> file you can try the following: