Re: Bug#541703: base-files: Please include FreeBSD license

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> I would like to add that it helps to make the copyright summary much
> more readable, when instead of having the information buried between
> long copies of common licenses, there is their boilerplate and a link
> to their full text.

This is also addressed by DEP 5, without requiring license terms in
separate files. That format allows specification of a named license for
specific sets of files, while deferring the full license terms
referenced by that name to later in the same file.

So it's not necessary to have the terms in a separate file to improve
readability in the manner you describe.

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Ben Finney