On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 05:48:05PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
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?
As I said before, we prefer not to think about this.
what is the risk that debian is concerned about here?
We explicitly aren't! It's only trying to discuss this produces more and more of strange questions not considered in practice.
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