Re: Licensing of licenses

Hello Jonas

Am 17.05.2026 10:46 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> Quoting [email protected] (2026-05-17 10:07:16)
>> The decision about compliance goes to "reuse-tool" and is not the job
>> of "spdx2debian".
> 
> If I understand the situation correctly, then "spdx2debian" generally
> proxies and reformats facts generated by "reuse-tool",

If I understand your comment correct, yes.

> but then chooses
> to additionally fabricate a fact about the file debian/copyright for a
> more polished result.

Yes, that is a dirty workaround. I am glad this discussion came up. And 
I hope we find a better solution I can my tool adapt to. I am not happy 
about the current behavior of my tool. It is also quit young.

 From a pragmatic and technical view point it might be the easiest for 
every one of us, if "resue-tool" would provide an "--ignore" option.


> That does indeed sound to me as a compliance decision solely the
> responsibility of "spdx2debian".

Agree.

> NB! debian/copyright files may contain facts about the copyright and
> licensing of the file itself, just not in a REUSE compliant format

spdx2debian do not overwrite a whole debian/copyright file. It tries to 
preserve previous stanzas. But I am just in the beginning with this 
behavior and waiting for feedback from DMs. DMs need to be very careful 
not loosing extra info from their d/copyright when using spdx2debian. 
Always check the "diff"! In same cases it might not be the appropriate 
tool.

Regards,
Christian