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Improve Debian licensed score

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Double-check whether the below aligns with what we have today.
Investigate how the existing licensed score can be improved.

> jeffmcafferYesterday at 3:48 AM
I was wondering why the Debian packages have pretty low scores. Didn't dive into the details of what we're doing but I did run into one of the key people in the space and he gave me the following info.
>- in debian source packages the license & copyright info are located in
debian/copyright
>- in debian binary packages the same find above will be installed under
/usr/share/doc/BINARY_PKG_NAME/copyright

>The file format is meant to be human readable only, but in most cases it
will follow this format (and declares to do so, so you can detect it):
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

>We also discussed the semantics of Debian version numbers, which is
documented here:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-version
Machine-readable debian/copyright file
Establishes a standard, machine-readable format for debian/copyright files within Debian packages to facilitate automated checking and reporting of licenses for packages and sets of packages. This specification was originally drafted as DEP-5.
Does this match with what's going on in our analysis today?

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