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This is a reason for Debian to exists. Licenses cannot be reviewed automatically in a reliable way. Debian developers review the licenses and store them in a m
by debiandev 7y ago
This is a reason for Debian to exists.
Licenses cannot be reviewed automatically in a reliable way. Debian developers review the licenses and store them in a machine-parsable file.
- correct_horse 7y agoAre you saying that standard licenses cannot be checked for compatibility automatically? Or that arbitrary homebrew licenses cannot be checked automatically?
- 0x0 7y agoDidn't Debian push a stable security update for Ghostscript that changed the license over to AGPL some time ago?
- detaro 7y agoDid they break the license meta data while doing so?