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Re: Licensing of licenses

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Hello

Am 17.05.26 um 15:33 schrieb c.buhtz@posteo.jp:
> So what? I have to force the DM to add a license info by itself somehow?

Who do you have to force. Who do you mean with DM?
Who forces you to do so?

> On a first run, without having a d/copyright, spdx2debian will work fine.
> On a second run, it discovers that the d/copyright has no license, and 
> it will fail.

Do you want to list the (non-free) licenses and the authors of the 
license texts themselves?

In my opinion it is a misunderstanding to require an explicit license 
statement for the debian/copyright file.

Regards

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  Re: Licensing of licenses Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2026-05-16 20:10 +0200
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  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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