Bug#768772: License-Grant field in ‘debian/copyright’

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

On 15-Feb-2016, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> Could you please tell me where copyright/License-Grant fields came from?
> I've seen no mentioning of such fields in 
>     http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

Yes, the specification does not mention this field. Use of
“License-Grant” is permitted by the specification,

See <URL:https://bugs.debian.org/786470> for an ongoing discussion of
standardising the “License-Grant” field.

Thanks for asking, and I hope you like this field I'm promoting :-)

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>

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