On Fri, 2026-03-13 at 10:23 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Peter Blackman <[email protected]> writes: > > > On 09/03/2026 21:09, Peter Blackman wrote: > > > I don't see a bug here though. While the package source may be > > > dual licensed, > > > the file LICENSE-APACHE is clearly Apache-2.0 licensed, > > > and the file LICENSE-MIT is clearly MIT or Expat licensed. > > > > > > licensecheck and hence licenserecon are correct here. > > > > While there is a genuine license difference being reported, > > on further consideration, I agree its not a significant difference. > > > > Will fix. > > Great! I also see this, but have ignored them via debian/lrc.config. > > License texts are exceptional that warrant special consideration. > > Generally speaking, license texts are NOT licensed under itself. > > Compare the text of GPL-3.0 itself: > > Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > > Often license texts doesn't even carry any licensing information > about > itself, which makes the situation unclear at best, and at worst there > is > no rights whatsever to the license text. Presumably a grant to allow > copy and distribute verbatim copies of license texts are implied. > > /Simon
While it is true that the license text is not licensed as the code it refers to, in many cases the presence of a license text in a directory implies the licensing of that directory. The problem I am reporting is that the presence of multiple licensing texts in a directory indicates that directory is licensed in multiple ways, and so calling out the individual texts which match each of these licenses is not helpful. In cases where there is a license in a directory and it does not match the license(s) asserted for that directory in debian/copyright is very important. Thanks, Andrew -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Porirua, New Zealand +64 (27) 288 6741 Don't engineer in a crisis. -- Vint Cerf speaking on IPv6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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