Re: debian/copyright in source package

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

> >2. Why would policy say "should" instead of "must", if we then do not
> >allow for exceptions? (packages generating copyright file at build time).
> 
> This is not my area, but why should there be an exception?

To allow for the file to be automatically generated at build time,
which in turn avoids useless duplication of license text in the source
package.

I know that we usually treat packages as "whole works", but in theory
a package might well be an aggregation of different programs having
different copyright and licenses, in which case it would be
theoretically possible to have a different copyright file for each of
them.