On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:41:48 -0700 Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > How about just pointing SPDX licenses URL for whole license text and > > lists DFSG-free licenses from that? (but yes, we should adjust short > > name of licenses for DEP-5 and SPDX for it). > > Can we do this legally? If we can, it certainly has substantial merits, > but I'm not sure that this satisfies the requirement in a lot of licenses > to distribute a copy of the license along with the work. Some licenses > may allow that to be provided as a URL, but I don't think they all do > (which makes sense since people may receive Debian on physical media and > not have Internet access).
Hmm, how about providing license-common package and that depends on "license-common-list", and ISO image provides both, then? It would be no regressions. I expect license-common-list data as below license-short-name: URL GPL-2: file:///usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 Boost-1.0: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSL-1.0.html -- Hideki Yamane <henr...@iijmio-mail.jp>
