On Thu, 2026-01-08 at 10:59 -0500, Jesse Rhodes wrote: > Hi Maytham, > > Thank you for your sponsorship offer! > > Regarding d/copyright, I helped with a dozen or so uploads for kde > plasma 6 during the trixie cycle, and that team told me to use the SPDX > style copyright short names. It's my understanding that the tools to > parse machine-readable copyright files can parse both without issue, and > it's maintainer/team discretion. I don't have a personal preference but > would rather know for sure than keep getting bounced back and forth > depending on what DD I'm working with, you know? Is there an > authoritative document somewhere that says the DEP-5 short names should > always replace SPDX short names in d/copyright, or a clearer flow to > choose one over the other?
The copyright format doc says in section 6.7 that the License name is "an abbreviated name for the license, or expression giving alternatives (see the Short name section for a list of standard abbreviations). If there are licenses present in the package without a standard short name, an arbitrary short name may be assigned for these licenses. These arbitrary names are only guaranteed to be unique within a single copyright file." Section 7.1 then lists a bunch of licenses with the names that should be used to refer to them. TBH, it doesn't really matter what names are used in d/copyright, so if you prefer to use the SPDX names, then that's fine. Personally, I think the standard should be using SPDX names to begin with rather than its own seemingly arbitrary license names. Thanks, Maytham
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