Re: Licensing of licenses

Hello Jonas,

Am 17.05.2026 11:26 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> sorry if I come across as dismissive,

No, this is fine. My situation is kind of delicate. ;)
I am not a DM and know nearly nothing about it but try to provide a tool 
for the DM workflow.

I can only encourage every DM (and others) to comment on the current 
state of "spdx2debian"
and the REUSE standard behind it.

The tool is of course invented to solve a problem. But it also was my 
goal to somehow encourage
a discussion and progress in this copyright-nightmare DMs have to deal 
with. That is why I force
to be 100%-SPD-compliant, to make people think about SPDX.

I am sure "spdx2debian" will be kept as an exotic/edge tool in Debian 
for the next years. But it
might encourage some persons and projects to get their license and 
copyright situation cleaned
up. I took over a 17 year old upstream project (Back In Time) myself and 
also have to deal
with this nightmare. I don't want to load that sh*** on DMs. It is IMHO 
upstream responsibility
and every upstream maintainer can be glad to get included in the 
official Debian repo.

Regards,
Christian