Re: Licensing of licenses

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sat, 2026-05-16 at 19:46 +0200, Alex wrote:
> Hello everyone
> 
> (I'm new to Debian development so please be lenient if this was
> discussed already or is missing the point)
> 
> I was wondering about d/copyright files and their correctness when it
> comes to the information they contain about Free Software licenses
> contained in upstream projects.
[...]
> Have others had the same questions before and come to good answers? Or
> are these the wrong questions to ask in the first place? Thanks in
> advance for sharing your thoughts.

I opened bug <https://bugs.debian.org/1111126> against debian-policy for
this exact issue.  Unfortunately this did not yet reach a conclusion.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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