Schrober wrote: > I've read from time to time that DEP-5 should also work for upstream. Since > SPDX looks to complicated to have it stored in the upstream repos, I wanted to > use the more simpler, but still extreme useful DEP-5 in a license file. Is it > ok to use DEP-5 for a LICENSE file and how should it be changed? For example > the "On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public..." part > sounds wrong for an upstream version. I use DEP-5 this way for my software. I use a wording like this to meet both use cases: License: GPL-3+ The full text of version 3 of the GPL is distributed as doc/GPL in this package's source, or in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 on Debian systems. -- see shy jo
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