On Tuesday, May 19, 2026 11:45:12 PM Mountain Standard Time [email protected] wrote: > Hello Soren, > > thank you for clearing this for me. You gave me something to think about > it. > > Don't get me wrong. I don't believe your or want to argument against > you. > > Am 19.05.2026 22:31 schrieb Soren Stoutner: > > It is important to understand what the DEP-5 debian/copyright file is > > intending to communicate. > > From my point of view the format specs for this file do not contain this > information. > It appears to me as a technical document, not a policy. So I don't give > much weight > on it when it says I can sum up (and mix) the copyright statements. > > > In other words, it communicates the following: > > ... > > That is nice! You should put that in the wiki or a policy document > somehow. > As an outsider I would like to see this as an official Debian statement > or policy > entry. But from my current understanding of the discussion and knowledge > of the policy this is not the case. I only have some arguments from > individual > persons; very good arguments. But Debian is not one person. > > Maybe you have an idea how to improve the policy in this way? Or maybe > the info is just there and I do miss(understand) the section?
This is the current practice of Debian and is generally understood by almost everyone involved in Debian packaging. I would applaud any efforts to improve the documentation to make this easier to understand for outsiders or those new to Debian packaging. Feel free to reuse or publish what I have written here anywhere you think is helpful. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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