Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2022-01-16 19:38:25) > (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel) > > Hi! > > I'm currently updating the debian/copyright of my two packages > fs-uae-arcade [1] and fs-uae-launcher [2] as both packages got > rejected by the FTP team due to an incomplete debian/copyright. > > Since the packages contain a lot of different licenses, the > debian/copyright would be very long when copying the different license > texts verbatim. > > However, I stumbled over the fonts-roboto package which resolves this > issue by using just references to the full license texts which are > present on any Debian system anyway [3]. > > I have updated debian/copyright of both fs-uae-* packages to use the > "License-Reference" keyword, however lintian now complains about the > missing license texts so I'm wondering whether this approach - which I > like - is actually compliant with the Debian Policy?
License texts are required to be included verbatim. A few license texts are _already_ included verbatim in the base systems. What fonts-roboto does is to reference licenses already included. I firmly believe that it is Policy-compliant to reference files included with package base-files and installed below /usr/share/common-licenses. All other license texts must be included verbatim in the debian/copyright file Please note, however, that license _grants_ (i.e. the various ways a copyright holder can state that they grant some _referenced-by-them_ license) need not be included verbatim. The lintian complaint is discussed in bug#786450. - 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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