Re: Licensing of licenses

Quoting Alex (2026-05-17 12:13:37)
> Under what circumstances does spdx2debian "invent" the licensing for
> d/copyright? When the Debian source package is not itself REUSE
> compliant, [spdx2debian wouldn't even run][0]. The solution for this
> case, I [found to work well][1], is a REUSE.toml in debian/. I could
> only reproduce the described behavior locally, when running
> spdx2debian on a REUSE compliant upstream project (i.e. no debian/
> directory) once to generate debian/copyright and *then re-running*
> spdx2debian. I agree with Jonas that coming up with a licensing for
> debian/copyright on the second run is misleading.

> The default behavior for spdx2debian should be that w/o additional
> work by the maintainer the project has just become not fully reuse
> compliant (no copyright information for d/copyright available) and
> therefore should error out accordingly.

Yes, this sounds reasonable to me.

Great that you contribute bugreports upstream, but please also document
prominently any workarounds applied those bugs.

> xD - hope you didn't take that personally, Jonas!

Not at all :-)

 - Jonas

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