Hello Jonas

Am 17.05.26 um 13:24 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2026-05-17 11:26:09)
Quoting [email protected] (2026-05-17 10:52:25)
Hello Jonas

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Also (and the reason I spotted my mistake), I disagree with Mechtilde
posting that debian/copyright files cannot be licensed. I license the
debian/copyright files that I (sometimes but not always) invest quite
some arguably creative work into constructing and maintaining, and I
see no problem in treating that as copyrightable work and therefore to
grant licensing for said protected work. Only the copyright holder can
grant licensing, which might be the point that Mechtilde intended to
point out, but that is irrelevant when generating a file from scratch.


To be more clear:
What license do you want to use for the file d/copyright? The license you use for the file d/copyright include the license texts themselves.

But most of the license texts are not allowed to improve.
It is not allowed to change anything in the contract between licensor and licensee

We should discuss how we describe an exception for those license
texts themselves.

Regards

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Mechtilde Stehmann
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