On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:28:34PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > I liked Miro's suggestion of hardlinking the licenses, but it's > important to sure they are actually identical with checksums (i.e., > don't just use the License field because what if the upstream project > subtly adjusted the license file?)
Right, it would be necessary for someone maintaining a package to verify that what looks like a common license actually matches the reference copy. (I don't know if Debian does this.) In some cases, non-identical files could be determined nonetheless to match according to some criteria. As an example, the GitHub 'choose-a-license' feature seems to be resulting in a class of noncanonical common license texts that differ from the real authentic copy only in nonsubstantive ways (e.g. whitespace). Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
