Control: tags -1 - patch (the patch tag has a special meaning in the bugs on debian-policy, to indicate that consensus has been reached and discussion is over).
Le Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:07:45AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > Control: tags -1 + patch > > As discussed in the ‘debian-devel’ thread in 2015-05 > <URL:https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/85lhgjzqy3....@benfinney.id.au>, > there is value in recording the explicit text from the copyright > holder that *grants* a license to the recipient. > > The attached patch updates the ‘copyright-format’ specification to > describe a “License-Grant” field, and clarifies the other fields in > relation to this. Hi Ben, I just read through the thread on debian-devel; I think that the Lintian warning "dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique" is wrong. As you can see on lintian.debian.org, it is issued for more than a thousand packages. At this point one needs to consider if the current practice should be adatped to Lintian or if Lintian should be adapted to the current practice. The current practice is that in cases like the following one, the stand-alone license paragraph is the one that defines the license text. ------------------------------------------ Files: * License: foo You must follow the foo license. License: foo Do whatever foo you want. ------------------------------------------ In my opinon, clarifying the standard would be better than changing one thousand packages. Experiments on new fields are welcome, and it is good to open bugs to track them. But I think that we should first see how the proposed field gets traction before adding it to the specification. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
