Re: Licensing of licenses

Mechtilde Stehmann <[email protected]> Sun, 17 May 2026 14:14:26 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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Am 17.05.26 um 13:59 schrieb [email protected]:
> 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.

Where can I follow that discussion?

> 
> 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
> 

Regards
-- 
Mechtilde Stehmann
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