Simon Josefsson [24/Jul 10:33am +02] wrote: > I noticed [1] use of a new field 'Reference' in debian/copyright that > appears to avoid the need to put a copy of the license declaration in > debian/copyright for licenses in common-licenses. > > Is this something that the debian-policy copyright-format document > should cover? I don't see it in the current document: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > > We already don't put the entire license text of common-license in > debian/copyright since a long time. > > It would be nice to avoid the need to cut'n'paste the license > declaration blurbs as well, which often tends to be outdated with old > postal addresses or http:// instead of https:// links and so on. > > I expect discussion and lack of consensus for many years :)
This is #904729. -- Sean Whitton
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