Sorry Anatoli, I forgot to include you in my reply.
On 11/23/20 7:02 PM, Baptiste Beauplat wrote:
Hi Anatoli, On 11/23/20 4:49 PM, Anatoli Babenia wrote:I could not find any examples on how to make public domain packaged in Debian. Would be nice if `dh_make` supported it with `--copyright pd` option.The way to handle public-domain work is described in those two documents: https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Public_Domain https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep5/#public-domainI'm somewhat unsure about adding this license to dh-make because the Public domain license does not seems to be a wildly used choice for writing software.A quick search on https://sources.debian.org show that barely ~1000 packages mention "public-domain" in they copyright and most of the time, it only apply to a small part of the source code.Another point is that, per DEP5, an explanation is required when using the public domain license. That is case specific and cannot be generated by dh-make.It would make sense to me to only ship most common licenses in dh-make, and thus skip the public domain license. What do you think?
-- Baptiste Beauplat - lyknode
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