Re: hard linking libboost copyright files

Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2024-02-04 Muhammad Yaaseen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The question is once we install the libboost .deb packages into a
>> system, the copyright file for each libboost package is stored
>> separately in /usr/shared/doc/packages folder. I'm think of
>> hardlinking these copyright files so that we same some memory. Is this
>> legally allowed. 
> [...]
>
> The canonical solution would be to add libboost-commonx.xx containing
> what is currently found in /usr/share/doc/libboost-foox.xx and symlink
> the whole directory. You'll probably need to make libboost-commonx.xx
> arch all to be binNMU compatible.

Another solution would be to add the Boost license to
/usr/share/common-licenses.  Running

  ls /usr/share/doc/*/copyright | xargs -n 100 grep "Boost Software License" | wc -l

on my bookworm system finds it in 225 packages, of which 160 are not a
libboost* package.

Cheers,
Walter Landry