Re: DEP-5 and public domain

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

"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org> writes:

> I agree, the files (but the documentation) don't seems copyrightable,
> which is different as PD, so new keyword "NO"?

To my eye, ‘License: NO’ has exactly the wrong connotation (“the
recipient has no copyright license to this work”). The obvious reaction
to that would be “okay, then we can't have it in Debian”.

Perhaps a better one would be ‘License: not-required’. This would say
exactly what we mean, and prompt the right question: On what basis does
the maintainer claim no license is required for this work? The
continuation lines of the field could then be used to answer that
question.

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