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Re: Licensing of licenses

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Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Am 17.05.26 um 08:54 schrieb c.buhtz@posteo.jp:

>> On the other hand, "reuse-tool" does not recognize "d/copyright" as
>> a license file, so it warns if there is no license for that
>> file. Therefore, "spdx2debian" currently generates a license file
>> for it using "CC0-1.0" as license and "None" as copyright holder. It
>> is also a workaround.
>
> The file d/copyright can't be licensed under CC0-1.0.
>
> Reason:
> The freedoms granted by CC0-1.0 can't be applied.
> CC0-1.0 grants the freedom to use, understand, distribute, and modify
> the source code. However, it is precisely this last freedom that is
> absent from most licenses.

why do we think the file d/copyright is itself a license?

it is documentation of how to map between files and licenses. surely
d/copyright should be under the same license as anything else in the
debian directory? (Is is because it quotes text from the GPL? but a
quote is just a quote, and should be 'fair use' to include in a
non-GPL-licenses file, right?)

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  Re: Licensing of licenses Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2026-05-16 20:10 +0200
  Re: Licensing of licenses Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2026-05-16 21:50 +0200
  Re: Licensing of licenses c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2026-05-17 09:00 +0200
    Re: Licensing of licenses Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2026-05-17 10:00 +0200
      Re: Licensing of licenses c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2026-05-17 10:10 +0200
        Re: Licensing of licenses Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2026-05-17 10:50 +0200
          Re: Licensing of licenses c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2026-05-17 11:00 +0200
            Re: Licensing of licenses Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 11:10 +0200
            Re: Licensing of licenses Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2026-05-17 11:30 +0200
              Re: Licensing of licenses Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2026-05-17 13:30 +0200
                Re: Licensing of licenses Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 14:20 +0200
              Re: Licensing of licenses c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2026-05-17 14:10 +0200
                Re: Licensing of licenses Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 14:20 +0200
                Re: Licensing of licenses c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2026-05-17 15:40 +0200
                Re: Licensing of licenses Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 14:20 +0200
      Re: Licensing of licenses Alex <alex@puer-robustus.eu> - 2026-05-17 12:20 +0200
        Re: Licensing of licenses Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2026-05-17 12:50 +0200
    Re: Licensing of licenses Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 13:00 +0200
      Re: Licensing of licenses c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2026-05-17 15:40 +0200
        Re: Licensing of licenses Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 17:00 +0200
          Re: Licensing of licenses c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2026-05-17 17:50 +0200
      Re: Licensing of licenses Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com> - 2026-05-17 16:40 +0200
        Re: Licensing of licenses Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 17:20 +0200
          Re: Licensing of licenses c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2026-05-17 17:50 +0200
        Re: Licensing of licenses Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 17:30 +0200
          Re: Licensing of licenses Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com> - 2026-05-17 18:50 +0200
            Re: Licensing of licenses Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 19:10 +0200
            Re: Licensing of licenses Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 20:40 +0200

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