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Re: Packaging text licenses



Quoting Thomas Goirand (2019-12-17 22:24:56)
> On 12/15/19 10:21 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin (2019-12-15 21:02:19)
> >> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 02:25:47PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >>> As others in this thread have pointed out, Debian explicitly omits 
> >>> classifying license fulltexts as "free software" or "non-free 
> >>> software".
> >> Where does it explicitly do that?
> >> We do that implicitly.
> > 
> > Yes you are right. Thanks for correcting me.
> > 
> >  - Jonas
> 
> If we are already shipping the license (non-free) text as part of 
> packages, what difference would it make to have them all shipped in a 
> single package? Can't the exception also apply to that one package 
> Jonas is suggesting?
> 
> After reading all of this thread, I'm still not convince as to why it 
> should be forbidden.

As I read it, only Francesco says in this thread that license fulltexts 
should be (or already are) forbidden.

In case that matters to your concerns.


 - Jonas

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