[email protected] writes: > Am 17.05.2026 17:14 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> I'd add a flag to specify the upstream catch-all license, generate a >> Files: * block stating that license, and then only list the files that >> are exceptions to the overall license.
> It is not that easy. A stanza in the d/copyright file is build from a > license plus copyright information. If two files share the same license > but have different copyright (author) information "spdx2debian" would > create two different stanzas for them. I would not do that either, again because it undermines readability. Just collect all the copyright notices for the same license into a single stanza as is explicitly allowed by section 6.8 of the copyright-format standard. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
