On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 06:15:08PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > What do we gain by quoting common licenses in debian/copyright over and > over again? We don't quote (i.e. include the *full* text of) common licenses over and over again, that's precisely what /usr/share/common-licenses is for, and this has been that way even before machine readable copyrights. (In other words: Sorry, I don't understand your question).