Re: Please review new license summaries for Debian

Hello Jonas,

thank you for the message.

Am 15.06.2026 14:38 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> 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.

I do not understand hat in all details. Do you mean the license 
summaries
from the PR when using the term "such a string"?

I wondered myself why there is a Stand-alone-license stanza [1] in
d/copyright files, when it is a well known standard license.

Are there any policy recommendations about how to handle that?

Would you say that the example [2] I was pointing to is simply wrong and
should be handled otherwise?

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