Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> writes: > On 2024-02-04 Muhammad Yaaseen <myaas...@infinera.com> wrote: >> The question is once we install the libboost .deb packages into a >> system, the copyright file for each libboost package is stored >> separately in /usr/shared/doc/packages folder. I'm think of >> hardlinking these copyright files so that we same some memory. Is this >> legally allowed. > [...] > > The canonical solution would be to add libboost-commonx.xx containing > what is currently found in /usr/share/doc/libboost-foox.xx and symlink > the whole directory. You'll probably need to make libboost-commonx.xx > arch all to be binNMU compatible.
Another solution would be to add the Boost license to /usr/share/common-licenses. Running ls /usr/share/doc/*/copyright | xargs -n 100 grep "Boost Software License" | wc -l on my bookworm system finds it in 225 packages, of which 160 are not a libboost* package. Cheers, Walter Landry
