Hi Jonas On 2026/01/30 15:04, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Personally I think not. I think that Debian is about DFSG, not about lowering politically to the lowest common denominator.
I agree with others that matching the package licensing is reasonable, although as we often see, bigger and larger packages tend to have a mixture of licenses, in which case we typically choose the most free license for the package.
Occasionally, I run into problems with more advanced packages, and then find that Arch Linux of Gentoo have found a good solution to it, and I use it. When I've already spent some hours to a packaging solution in Debian, I want it to be available as widely as possible to others in the same manner with as little friction as possible. So, I think if I had to default on something else that "same as packaging", I'd use something like CC0 or something that is equally permissive.
-Jonathan
