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Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?



On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 01:42:54AM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Why don't we add all DFSG-free licenses to /usr/share/common-licenses or
> /usr/share/free-licenses instead? It would save a lot of developer and
> maintenance time if we could just reference those licenses on a standard
> Debian system instead of copying them over and over again. Other people
> came up with identical suggestions in the past and there are already bug
> reports against debian-policy. [1] [2]

I wanted to report that, in a similar spirit, I reported a related
suggestion against debian-policy: https://bugs.debian.org/883950
Now, that needs a ftp-master to ACK it though.



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very mail of mine]

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