Quoting Hideki Yamane (2023-09-10 11:00:07) > On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:41:48 -0700 > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > > How about just pointing SPDX licenses URL for whole license text and > > > lists DFSG-free licenses from that? (but yes, we should adjust short > > > name of licenses for DEP-5 and SPDX for it). > > > > Can we do this legally? If we can, it certainly has substantial merits, > > but I'm not sure that this satisfies the requirement in a lot of licenses > > to distribute a copy of the license along with the work. Some licenses > > may allow that to be provided as a URL, but I don't think they all do > > (which makes sense since people may receive Debian on physical media and > > not have Internet access). > > Hmm, how about providing license-common package and that depends on > "license-common-list", and ISO image provides both, then? It would be > no regressions. > > > I expect license-common-list data as below > > license-short-name: URL > GPL-2: file:///usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 > Boost-1.0: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSL-1.0.html
Ah, so what you propose is to use file URIs. I guess Russ' response above was a concern over using http(s) URIs towards a non-local resource. What I practice since some years is the following syntax: Files: foo/bar Copyright: 2022 Someone License: Apache-2.0 or Expat License: Apache-2.0 Reference: /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0 License: Expat [the full contents of the Expat license] That syntax introduces a new field "Reference" (our copyright file format permits new fields, despite lintian complaining about it). Related discussion is at https://bugs.debian.org/786450 - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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