Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > Richard Lewis <[email protected]> writes: > >> 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?) > > debian/copyright frequently contains entire verbatim copies of licenses > that aren't in common-licenses. Those license texts themselves may be > under non-free licenses similar to how the GPL is.
But does that really mean debian/copyright itself is a derived work of the GPL? what is the risk that debian is concerned about here?
