Greetings, all! [Lurker in the Debian space, decloaking to ask a clarification.]
On 15 Dec 2019, at 07:01, Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> wrote: > > But can DFSG-free data be prepared for the test suite of a program > intended to identify licenses?!? How can I test whether the program is > able to identify CC-by-nc-nd-v1.0 *without* feeding it the actual text > of that same license?!? A subset of the more general “can Debian core ship non-free *data*”. Is this not already addressed, eg by games which can use paid-for data but ship in Debian with replacement assets? If so, the whole-as-one-package of licensecheck should ship analogously, barring exception for “fair use”/non-US-equivalents. What am I missing here? Perhaps an argument this is really shipping a convenience *cache* of freely-available read-only texts. (You’re not being bound to anything if you download license texts from eg choosealicense.com <http://choosealicense.com/> or Apple’s legal site ….) Are there existing Debian packages which perform this role already? If so, analogize from those? If licensecheck would thus ship as contrib or non-free, maybe split off the contrib and non-free data portions into separate plug-in packages, which depend on licensecheck and which the core licensecheck could “suggest”? Thanks! Joseph
