Re: Please review new license summaries for Debian

Quoting [email protected] (2026-06-15 13:25:20)
> 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?

When the copyright holder writes such a string to indirectly refer to a
license, it is what some in Debian (including me) call a license grant.

When the package maintainer writes such a string to indirectly refer to
a license, it is, in my understanding, a comment which in my opinion
belongs in a Comment field to not confuse it as something dug out from
some upstream origin.

 - Jonas

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