Hello Dominique,
Am 15.06.2026 12:59 schrieb Dominique Dumont:
This enables us to replace long license text with a summary in
debian/copyright files.
I am not sure what this means. How are this summary text blocks are
used?
Is the intention to use this text in the "License" stanzas [1] in the
"debian/copyright"
file?
I have never seen such a summary before. When the full license text
isn't used
I only know the variant which redirects the reader to the original
license. Here
is one example [2]:
License: CC0-1.0
On Debian systems, the full text of the Creative Commons Zero v1.0
Universal
can be found in the directory `/usr/share/common-licenses/’.
License: GPL-3.0-only
On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License v3.0
only
can be found in the directory `/usr/share/common-licenses/’.
And which tools in Debian do use the summary texts in this PR?
Best,
Christian Buhtz
just an upstream maintainer
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-field
[2]
https://sources.debian.org/src/hyperorg/0.1.0-1/debian/copyright#L33-L39
