On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: > This is not to say that licensing is an unimportant issue -- it clearly > is. But our analyze-and-document down-to-the-file approach is on the > other extreme end of the spectrum, and it causes lots of tiresome work > that nobody apart from us seems to care about.
I'd contest this. Whenever Open Source standards come up in a discussion, Debian is always the gold reference. You know it can be done right and it is: in Debian. Having the possibility to look up to that standard and being able to compare to it is a value and valuable in it self. That said, Debian doesn't have to hold up that standard if it doesn't deem it useful of course. Me personally I deem it very valuable. I can be sure that if stuff lands in Debian then I won't get screwed by weird, dirty, missleading, underhanded licensing rules, which seems to be the standard outside the Open Source world and even on its fringes. *t
