On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 05:22:09PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > A number of license texts are not themselves licensed under DFSG-free > terms. > > And Debian promises to remain 100 % free, see [SC] #1. Any content of a > Debian package (in main) must be free according to the DFSG. Sure. > License texts are usually [considered] the sole exception They are just not considered. I don't think this exception is written anywhere. And I don't think SC allows exceptions not mentioned in it. There are many things in Debian which are just not talked about, this is one of them. > but I think the exception only applies when the license text is included > in the package *for the sole purpose* of documenting the legal terms > under which some part of the package is released. This, stronger, statement, is of course not written anywhere either. -- WBR, wRAR
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