Package: debian-policy
Nowadays it's common to see stand alone license paragraphs like these:
|License: GPL-2+
| On Debian systems the full text of the GPL-2 can be found in
| /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
or
|License: GPL-2+
| This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
| it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
| the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
| (at your option) any later version.
| .
| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
| but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
| MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
| GNU General Public License for more details.
| .
| You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
| with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
| 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
| .
| On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
| License version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
First of all, I'd like policy to stop being unclear on this matter, or
state whether the correct form is the former or the latter.
Secondly (which would overcome the first matter as well), I'd like to
propose to just stop wasting time/bytes in dumping such useless
boilerplte in our `debian/copyright`s when a license is available in
/usr/share/common-licenses.
I'm proposing either a new License-File field to be used in stand-alone
license paragraphs, or just whitelist some license identifiers as
"well known" and allow them to not need stand alone license paragraphs
at all (i.e. a file paragraph with 'License: GPL-2+' would be fine
without any extended license specification).
--
regards,
Mattia Rizzolo
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