Re: Licensing of licenses
Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian-gM/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.general |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Mechtilde Stehmann <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > Am 17.05.26 um 08:54 schrieb [email protected]: >> On the other hand, "reuse-tool" does not recognize "d/copyright" as >> a license file, so it warns if there is no license for that >> file. Therefore, "spdx2debian" currently generates a license file >> for it using "CC0-1.0" as license and "None" as copyright holder. It >> is also a workaround. > > The file d/copyright can't be licensed under CC0-1.0. > > Reason: > The freedoms granted by CC0-1.0 can't be applied. > CC0-1.0 grants the freedom to use, understand, distribute, and modify > the source code. However, it is precisely this last freedom that is > absent from most licenses. why do we think the file d/copyright is itself a license? it is documentation of how to map between files and licenses. surely d/copyright should be under the same license as anything else in the debian directory? (Is is because it quotes text from the GPL? but a quote is just a quote, and should be 'fair use' to include in a non-GPL-licenses file, right?)