On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 03:37:17PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On the other hand, "reuse-tool" does not recognize "d/copyright" as a license file, so it warns if there is no license for that file. Therefore, "spdx2debian" currently generates a license file for it using "CC0-1.0" as license and "None" as copyright holder. It is also a workaround.The file d/copyright can't be licensed under CC0-1.0. Reason: The freedoms granted by CC0-1.0 can't be applied. CC0-1.0 grants the freedom to use, understand, distribute, and modify the source code. However, it is precisely this last freedom that is absent from most licenses.why do we think the file d/copyright is itself a license? it is documentation of how to map between files and licenses. surely d/copyright should be under the same license as anything else in the debian directory? (Is is because it quotes text from the GPL? but a quote is just a quote, and should be 'fair use' to include in a non-GPL-licenses file, right?)
Evidently, the tool that is being discussed uses practices that aren'tused in normal Debian packaging, such as not having Files: * and trying to list license/copyright info for individual files, thus not being able to use Files: * or Files: debian to cover d/copyright implicitly.
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