Quoting Wouter Verhelst (2020-04-11 10:36:44) > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:43:17PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Debian: > > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/g/gtk%2B4.0/copyright-3.98.0-1 > > plus we ship the LGPL in base-files' common-licenses. > > This kind of insanity is actually why I refuse to use the > machine-parseable copyright format. > > Nobody cares that some file somewhere deep down in the source tree is > perhams maybe somewhat more permissive than the license on the whole. If > the license on the whole is a copyleft license, then that file somewhere > deep down is made available to you as that copyleft license, due to > "copyleft". > > Anything else is insanity, and I refuse to waste my time on it.
You seem to conflate two issues: a) writing debian/copyright in a machine-parsable format b) writing debian/copyright with too much detail included Please use the machine-readable format because then machines can help us. If you find it insane how detailed machine-readable format _can_ be, then please use the format _without_ the insanity. You can have a) without b) - e.g. like this: Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: GTK Source: https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk/ License: LGPL-2.1+ Files: * Copyright: The GTK Team and others License: LGPL-2+ and LGPL-2.1+ Comment: Specific authors omitted (unneeded for this license, and list is long). If ftp-masters then file bugreports about missing or too vague entries, you lower that to lower severity (if you are confident that it really is) and take it to the tech-CTTE if that causes a dispute. If ftp-masters then reject the package with missing or too vague entries being their reason, you bring that up here on -devel, because that's a different praxis than they currently give the impression that they are follow (nowadays - how they did in the past is irrelevant here). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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