Hello Jonas,
thank you for the message.
Am 15.06.2026 14:38 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
When the copyright holder writes such a string to indirectly refer to a
license, it is what some in Debian (including me) call a license grant.
When the package maintainer writes such a string to indirectly refer to
a license, it is, in my understanding, a comment which in my opinion
belongs in a Comment field to not confuse it as something dug out from
some upstream origin.
I do not understand hat in all details. Do you mean the license
summaries
from the PR when using the term "such a string"?
I wondered myself why there is a Stand-alone-license stanza [1] in
d/copyright files, when it is a well known standard license.
Are there any policy recommendations about how to handle that?
Would you say that the example [2] I was pointing to is simply wrong and
should be handled otherwise?
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#stand-alone-license-stanza
[2] https://sources.debian.org/src/hyperorg/0.1.0-1/debian/copyright
