Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?
On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:41:48 -0700
Russ Allbery <rra@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
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Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>
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