Re: Please review new license summaries for Debian

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 01:44:48PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
>>as recently was mentioned on #-dfsg, there's a not yet standardized
>>'Reference: /usr/share/common-licenses/[...]' field people are using,
>>and just switched to, too, e.g.:
>>
>>https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/g/gapless/copyright-4.6.1-1
>>
>>how about moving from license 'summaries' to 'references' instead?
>
>I was not able to find a "Reference" field/stanze in the d/copyright 
>standard.
>Is your linked copyright file valid?

They said it's "a not yet standardized field".

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