On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:12:15 +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > * Should we suggest people keep the upstream copyright statements > verbatim, including the word "Copyright" or c-in-a-circle or whatever? > Or should we suggest that they can also shorten them to, say, "2010, J. > Random Hacker"? I'm fine with either. Currently the examples use the > shortened form, so there's an implicit suggestion, but should be > explicit about it? Or change the examples? Opinions?
I prefer the shortened form; for me having it in the examples without explicitly mandating it would be enough. > * At the moment the License field's description says the first line can > only be a single short name, but the intention is clearly that it can be > an arbitrary "license shortname expression", with examples given later > in the document. Would everyone be OK if I change it to say "First line: > an abbreviated name for the license, or expression giving alternatives > (see *Short names* section for a list of standard abbreviations)." > instead? Fine with me. > The editorial changes, plus these two items, are the final things left > for DEP5, except for the review for licenses, shortnames and SPDX > compatibility. \o/ Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Peter, Paul & Mary: Wedding Song
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