Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

[Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Would it be unreasonable if someone were to start an
> "uncommon-licenses" package?  Then any package depending on that could
> use a reference to the license instead of including the full text in
> debian/copyright.

I realize that this misses a certain aspect of interpreting the
legalize of licenses, which is that many believe the full text of a
license needs to accompany all source and binary files.

So then an additional aspect of this solution could be a helper that
takes a copyright.in containing license file references and replaces
that with the appropriate full text.

Best wishes,
Mike