Re: Packaging text licenses
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 9:25 PM Thomas Goirand wrote:
> 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?
One difference is that in the normal case, the license often says we
*must* ship a copy of the license when shipping a copy of the
software. In the case of a package that ships copies of licenses
without the licenses applying to anything in the package, that
obligation doesn't exist.
Personally, because of the above consideration, I consider that
probably collections of licenses shouldn't be shipped in main. OTOH,
base-files: /usr/share/common-licenses/ exists so perhaps Debian
already ignores this issue.
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pabs
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