Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?
On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 06:41:03PM +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
> Hi Russ and Sean,
>
> thanks for for working on this. Just today I worked on a package having
> some CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed content and wasn't too glad at having to copy
> the full license. Are there any big blockers for this ? Reading the
> previous discussion the techicalities seem to be mostly agreed upon
> (unless I missed something ?). I think this would be a big improvement for
> packagers. Let me know if
> you need help finalizing any discussion to make this policy.
I suggested a tool that would copy the full license inside the binary package copyright file
at build time. This seems a more sustainable option.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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