Bug#904729: Policy 12.5: Must the license grant be included in debian/copyright?

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:26:53 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy
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Simon Josefsson [24/Jul 12:51pm +02] wrote:
> ftp-master,
>
> friendly ping to understand if you could make a decision if license
> grants needs to be mentioned in debian/copyright files or not?
>
> See https://bugs.debian.org/904729 for more context, and a better
> explanation of the problem and question by Sean.

Sorry -- this should be the DFSG-team now, not ftpmaster.

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Sean Whitton

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