On Monday, 18 November 2024 16:57:49 CET c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > > To my understand that wasn't answered.
Yes, the collection of licences is something distinct from the copyright information. In REUSE, the copyright information is maintained in a manifest that should be compatible with the DEP-5 format. > Regarding the lintian tag am I assuming correct that Debian GNU/Linux > does not care about a LICENSE file or LICENSES folder? > So there is no real problem to have a LICENSES folder? I imagine that there will be a desire to prevent duplicate files being installed, since there is /usr/share/common-licenses which is meant to hold standard licence texts. Of course, custom licences would not feature among the common-licenses and this is where REUSE's own licences collection for each package could be useful, but some custom licences might preclude software from being available in Debian in the first place. > The "copyright" file will exist (downstream) no matter if there is a > LICENSE file, a LICENSES folder or any of this. Indeed. Paul
