Re: is copyleft packaging bad for Debian?

Hi Jonas

On 2026/01/30 15:04, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Personally I think not. I think that Debian is about DFSG, not about
> lowering politically to the lowest common denominator.

I agree with others that matching the package licensing is reasonable, 
although as we often see, bigger and larger packages tend to have a 
mixture of licenses, in which case we typically choose the most free 
license for the package.

Occasionally, I run into problems with more advanced packages, and then 
find that Arch Linux of Gentoo have found a good solution to it, and I 
use it. When I've already spent some hours to a packaging solution in 
Debian, I want it to be available as widely as possible to others in the 
same manner with as little friction as possible. So, I think if I had to 
default on something else that "same as packaging", I'd use something 
like CC0 or something that is equally permissive.

-Jonathan