Hello Stefano,
thank you for your reply.
Am 18.11.2024 13:55 schrieb Stefano Rivera:
To my understanding of the policy the license file of package should
be
installed into
/usr/share/doc/<package>/LICENSE
It's spelled: /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright
To my understand the "copyright" file is something Debian specific.
This does not exist in my upstream project but is "generated" by my
Debian Package Maintainer.
There are several packages (e.g. "backintime-common" and
"backintime-qt") containing LICENSE
file and copyright file in that folder side by side.
Just assume that my DPM does handle the copyright file by himself in an
appropriate way.
But what about LICNESE file and a LICENSES folder for multiple licenses
files?
This scheme looks less expressive than Debian's machine-readable
format.
SPDX is designed to be human- and machine readable. There is also a
linter "reuse lint".
I am also aware of Debian internal approaches to generate Debian policy
conform copyright
and license information based on SPDX meta data.
Regards,
Christian
