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Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference

From Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.policy
Subject Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference
Date 2025-11-18 14:50 +0100
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Hello,

On Tue 18 Nov 2025 at 02:25pm +01, Bastian Germann wrote:

> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: normal
>
> Footnote [9] in chapter 12 says:
>
> """
> The University of California BSD license is also included in base-files as
> /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, but given the brevity of this license, its
> specificity to code whose copyright is held by the Regents of the University
> of California, and the frequency of minor wording changes, its text should
> be included in the copyright file rather than referencing this file.
> """
>
> Currently, there is only one package left referencing this file: #1105873.
> Please remove this part of the footnote so the file can finally be removed.

How about we remove the file from base-files first and then edit Policy?

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> - 2025-11-18 14:30 +0100
  Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-11-18 14:50 +0100
    Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-11-18 14:50 +0100
      Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-11-18 15:20 +0100
        Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-11-18 15:50 +0100
          Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-11-18 16:40 +0100
            Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-11-18 17:20 +0100
  Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-11-18 14:50 +0100
  Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-11-18 15:10 +0100

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