On Thu, 2024-11-14 at 07:36 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Thursday, November 14, 2024 5:56:58 AM MST Phil Wyett wrote: > > Jorg, > > > > I believe it must be 'Files: debian/*', but others may have better > > information that may offer clarity. > > It is up to the maintainer discretion. It is generally considered good > practice to license debian/* under the same license as upstream to make it > easier to contribute anything in there to the upstream project if that > becomes > helpful at any time. Most of the things that someone might want to > contribute > upstream would probably reside in debian/patches, but not necessarily all of > them (for example, a local manpage that upstream might be interested in > adopting). > > My personal preference is to always license debian/* the same as upstream. > After all, if I have strong reservations about the license upstream is using, > I probably wouldn’t be maintaining the package in the first place. However, > as > a sponsor, I would not disqualify a package with a different license if the > maintainer was aware of the recommendation but decided against it for some > reason. >
Soren, Thanks for the information. I will remember this when I do future reviews. Regards Phil -- "I play the game for the game’s own sake" Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans -- Donations... Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/kathenasorg Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/kathenas -- Internet Relay Chat (IRC): kathenas Matrix: #kathenas:matrix.org Website: https://kathenas.org Instagram: https://instagram.com/kathenasorg/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@kathenasorg --
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