Re: is copyleft packaging bad for Debian?

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Subject	Re: is copyleft packaging bad for Debian?
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Hi all,

On Sat Jan 31, 2026 at 9:19 AM CET, Arto Jantunen wrote:
> I recently thought about this specific problem for reasons I can't now
> remember, and arrived at the conclusion that CC0 is probably the best
> license one can choose for packaging.

Just a small comment: CC0 is (was?) seen as problematic by some[1][2], 
so a simpler license like the FSFAP[3][4], the ISC[5], or the 0BSD[6] 
would probably be more appropriate for simple packaging files.

The ISC is endorsed by both the OSI and FSF, the FSFAP only by the FSF, 
and the 0BSD is endorsed by the OSI while discouraged[7] by the FSF.

But, for the record, I think that licensing packaging work under the GPL 
is fine, and probably does not matter that much anyway.

Bye!

[1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/RRYM3CLYJYW64VSQIXY6IF3TCDZGS6LM/
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html.en#CC0
[3]: https://spdx.org/licenses/FSFAP.html
[4]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html.en#GNUAllPermissive
[5]: https://spdx.org/licenses/ISC.html
[6]: https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html
[7]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html.en#Zero-BSD

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  Re: is copyleft packaging bad for Debian? Matthias Geiger <werdahias@riseup.net> - 2026-01-30 17:40 +0100
    Re: is copyleft packaging bad for Debian? Martin <debacle@debian.org> - 2026-01-31 12:30 +0100
  Re: is copyleft packaging bad for Debian? Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2026-01-30 17:40 +0100
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