Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:19:34PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: I've committed the below patch to the dep repo on svn.debian.org. === modified file 'web/deps/dep5.mdwn' --- old/web/deps/dep5.mdwn2011-11-11 15:27:02 + +++ new/web/deps/dep5.mdwn2011-11-25 20:15:33 + @@

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
I've committed the below patch to the dep repo on svn.debian.org. === modified file 'web/deps/dep5.mdwn' --- old/web/deps/dep5.mdwn 2011-11-11 15:27:02 + +++ new/web/deps/dep5.mdwn 2011-11-25 20:15:33 + @@ -1036,12 +1036,27 @@ target=_topmany versions of the MIT

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-25 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:19:34PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: I've committed the below patch to the dep repo on svn.debian.org. That looks fine to me too. It's a sensible compromise to having everything specified off the short name and not putting too much scope-creep into the short name. wrt

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:03:27 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I have no objection to this for 1.0, provided we at the same time clarify that if more than one exception is in use, you need to use a custom shortname instead of an ORed or ANDed list of licenses. Is there a consensus for this

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 03:08:25 Steve Langasek wrote: I have no objection to this for 1.0, provided we at the same time clarify that if more than one exception is in use, you need to use a custom shortname instead of an ORed or ANDed list of licenses. Is there a consensus for this

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org, 2011-11-15, 18:08: Is there a concrete example where we need to support multiple exceptions? If not, I propose to follow and document the current practice, which is to support only one. This has the advantage that it will not be needed to implement new

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-16 Thread Charles Plessy
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:31:05AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Is there a concrete example where we need to support multiple exceptions ? If not, I propose to follow and document the current practice, which is to support only one. This has the advantage that it will not be needed to

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-16 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 06:08:25PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I have no objection to this for 1.0, provided we at the same time clarify that if more than one exception is in use, you need to use a custom shortname instead of an ORed or ANDed list of licenses. Is there a consensus for this

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:16:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Le Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:21:58PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : copyright-format reads: | Exceptions and clarifications are signaled in plain text, by appending | with keywords exception to the short name. However,

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:31:05AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:16:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Le Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:21:58PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : copyright-format reads: | Exceptions and clarifications are signaled in plain text, by

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-11-15 at 06:08pm, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:31:05AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:16:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Le Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:21:58PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : copyright-format reads: | Exceptions and

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org limit package debian-policy usertags 633797 + normative usertags 633797 + issue thanks Le Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:21:58PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : copyright-format reads: | Exceptions and clarifications are signaled in plain text, by appending |

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: I looked at how my favorite parser, config-edit, is doing with exceptions, and if I add a ‘OpenSSL and Font’ or an ‘OpenSSL, Font’ exception, it stops with error at loading… As a workaround, with keyword exception might work, making this GPL-2+ with OpenSSL exception

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:16:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:21:58PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : copyright-format reads: | Exceptions and clarifications are signaled in plain text, by appending | with keywords exception to the short name. However, it is

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Steve Langasek wrote: However, the history of the draft shows that people are concerned about knowing whether *specific* common exceptions are in effect Good point. For example, the GPL-2 with OpenSSL exception and OpenSSL licenses are compatible, while GPL-2 and the OpenSSL licenses are not.

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Executive summary for the CCed DEP-5 parser writers (and apologises for those I forgot): this is about how to signal multiple exceptions to a license. Le Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:33:58PM -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : You can always say GPL-2+-with-anything as a custom license name, but the

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 03:16:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: SPDX uses one short name per combination of license and exception. I did not like it at the beginning as I find it inelegant, but in the end it would be simpler. With that syntax, ‘GPL-2+ with OpenSSL and Font exceptions’ would

Bug#633797: copyright-format: with keywords exception underspecified

2011-07-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 (liw told me that this the correct place to report bugs in DEP5 specification. If this is not the case, please blame him. :P) copyright-format reads: | Exceptions and clarifications are signaled in plain text, by appending | with keywords exception to