Re: Does Debian itself have a license?
Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> writes:
> This however covers only the *source* of the package, not the binary
> packages. There is no way to find out the license of the binary
> packages without checking very carefully the sources and the way the
> package is created. So, the end user does not know what he is allowed
> to do with a certain (binary) Debian software package.
You're right, that is a practical shortcoming which impacts Hong Xu's
concern about the feasibility of that effort.
That is a matter which should IMO be discussed more broadly than
‘debian-legal’. This is because it's much more about tools and
installation locations and how users get information. It's actually
AFAICT not much to do with the copyright information of packages, only
about how to get that information once the packages are installed.
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