Bug#904729: Bug#1142696: debian-policy : Support 'Reference:' field in debian/copyright to avoid duplicating common-license texts

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I'm closing 1142696 as an almost-duplicate of 904729, with a comment
that I found uses of a 'Reference:' field and not only the
'License-Grant:' field mentioned in 1142696, see:

https://forgejo.debian.net/golang/golang-github-go-git-go-git-v6/commit/9cf508b3b3c2b0d83812c83d05af6966fa09ce14

I think 'License-Grant:' sounds more descriptive, but if it is supposed
to contain a link to a full license text, it doesn't seem like a license
grant, so still somewhat confusing.

There is no progress on 904729 since 2018.  Has anyone asked the new
DFSG Team about this?  Or is it still ftp-master who can decide on legal
matters?

/Simon

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:

> Simon Josefsson [24/Jul 10:33am +02] wrote:
>> I noticed [1] use of a new field 'Reference' in debian/copyright that
>> appears to avoid the need to put a copy of the license declaration in
>> debian/copyright for licenses in common-licenses.
>>
>> Is this something that the debian-policy copyright-format document
>> should cover?  I don't see it in the current document:
>>
>> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
>>
>> We already don't put the entire license text of common-license in
>> debian/copyright since a long time.
>>
>> It would be nice to avoid the need to cut'n'paste the license
>> declaration blurbs as well, which often tends to be outdated with old
>> postal addresses or http:// instead of https:// links and so on.
>>
>> I expect discussion and lack of consensus for many years :)
>
> This is #904729.

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