Ok, I'll leave it as-is then.
What's the next step?
On 2026-01-08 21:02, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
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
