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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 16:40 +0100
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Hello,

On Tue 18 Nov 2025 at 03:43pm +01, Santiago Vila wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 03:18:15PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 02:48:09PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
>> > For the record, I found three more occurrences:
>> >
>> > https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=the+complete+text+of+the+BSD+License+can+be+found
>
> One already reported and the other two were false positives (now reported
> as #1120938 and #1120939).
>
> So, yes, there was only one occurrence, sorry for the noise.

No problem.

We could put a "must" in Policy but it doesn't seem like it would
achieve much.  Once the file is gone from common-licenses (which seems
imminent) then it would obviously be a bug to refer to it.

-- 
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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