Debian

Posted Nov 28, 2024 0:40 UTC (Thu) by rra (subscriber, #99804)
In reply to: Debian by jzb
Parent article: Arch Linux finally starts licensing PKGBUILDs

It's a convention, not a policy. I believe the convention is followed pretty widely, but I have seen exceptions (usually in the form of licensing the debian directory under an MIT-style license even though the upstream source is GPL).