Re: Please review new license summaries for Debian

Hello Dominique,

Am 15.06.2026 12:59 schrieb Dominique Dumont:
> This enables us to replace long license text with a summary in
> debian/copyright files.

I am not sure what this means. How are this summary text blocks are 
used?
Is the intention to use this text in the "License" stanzas [1] in the 
"debian/copyright"
file?

I have never seen such a summary before. When the full license text 
isn't used
I only know the variant which redirects the reader to the original 
license. Here
is one example [2]:

License: CC0-1.0
  On Debian systems, the full text of the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 
Universal
  can be found in the directory `/usr/share/common-licenses/’.

License: GPL-3.0-only
  On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License v3.0 
only
  can be found in the directory `/usr/share/common-licenses/’.

And which tools in Debian do use the summary texts in this PR?

Best,
Christian Buhtz
just an upstream maintainer

[1] 
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-field
[2] 
https://sources.debian.org/src/hyperorg/0.1.0-1/debian/copyright#L33-L39