Hi c.buhtz (2024.11.18_12:31:01_+0000) > I was not sure which list is appropriate for this question. Because of that > I try it here because I am quit familiar with this community. > > To my understanding of the policy the license file of package should be > installed into > > /usr/share/doc/<package>/LICENSE
It's spelled: /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright > How to handle it if a project does have multiple license files? We combine them all into a single file. See: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > According to the REUSE standard (itself related to SPDX standard) an > upstream repository should have a folder named LICENSES containing the > licenses. See [1] as an example. > > Would it be OK, just installing that folder in Debian GNU/Linux the same > way? > > /usr/share/doc/<package>/LICENSES/*.txt I'm afraid not, that wouldn't comply with policy, ยง12.5 is fairly specific. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#copyright-debian-copyright Not that policy can't be changed, but there'd need to be a good reason. This scheme looks less expressive than Debian's machine-readable format. Stefano -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272
