On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:50:20PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Package: abiword
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 12.5

> The abiword source includes the sources for libpng, zlib, libiconv, fribidi,
> expat, pbx, popt, wv (and maybe some others I didn't see), none of which
> copyright holder and license is given in the copyright file.

None of these libraries are included in the binary package though, right? 
Is it really necessary for debian/copyright to document the licenses of
files not actually part of the binary packages?

Obviously, one option here then is to just repack the source package without
them...  anyway, I'm just not sure if this really ought to be a serious bug.

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