On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:46:44PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Files: libquux/*
> Copyright: […]
> License: GPL-2 or CC-BY-SA-3
> You may modify and/or redistribute this work under the terms of
> either the GPL version 2 or later, or the Creative Commons
> Attribution Share-Alike license version 3.
>
> License: CC-BY-SA-3
> THE WORK (AS DEFINED BELOW) IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS
> CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE ("CCPL" OR "LICENSE"). THE WORK
> IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW.
> […]
>
> That makes sense to me: we have the grant of license where it applies to
> the specific files, and we have the license text itself in a stand-alone
> paragraph.
FWIW, this is what I use for the perl package (which has one of the longer
copyright files), but it always felt a bit like stretching the rules.
I've seen the newish lintian warnings too but haven't gotten around to
doing anything about them yet.
The style reads well for humans but I can see it's not ideal for
machine parsing.
I'd love to have a "right" place for verbatim license grants.
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