Re: Please review new license summaries for Debian

On Monday, 15 June 2026 13:25:20 Central European Summer Time 
[email protected] wrote:
> 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?

yes, either in file stanzas or in standalone license stanzas.

> 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.

Right. Calling them summaries was a bad idea. I would not date to try to 
summarize a license, it's bound to fail. It's between a license grant and a 
gentle redirection of user towards a full license text. 

Fortunately, this notion of summary is not shown on cme. It's only used 
between cme and Software::LicenseMoreUtils. I open to idea to replace this 
"summary" with a better name.

All the best

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