Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:45:21PM +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On to, 2010-08-12 at 22:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi writes: On to, 2010-08-12 at 17:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: * An additional section with the same syntax as the Files section but with

Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2010-08-15 at 01:32 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: That seems sensible to me. I think it will require some significant restructuring of the text, to declare the License and Copyright fields in advance of references to them in the discussion of the header stanza, so maybe we should

Using the Names field to indicate that a work was copied from somewhere else (Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream).

2010-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 05:14:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : * A comment field in the header section into which I can put statements like: All individual files with no other license statement are released under this license. Some files have additional copyright dates from

Re: Using the Names field to indicate that a work was copied from somewhere else (Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream).

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: similarly to Lars' proposition to recycle the License and Copyright fields in the header, how about using the Disclaimer and Name fields for your purposes? Disclaimer:  All individual files with no other license statement are released  under this

Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Would a generic multi-line Comment: field be sufficient? Yes. Would an end-line comment syntax, like the one that already works in the ‘debian/control’ file, be sufficient? If so, then we can avoid diverging from the existing formats in this regard, and

Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Would a generic multi-line Comment: field be sufficient? Yes. Would an end-line comment syntax, like the one that already works in the ‘debian/control’ file, be sufficient? If so, then we can avoid

Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-13 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On pe, 2010-08-13 at 09:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: My opinion on this is that using # as a comment marker is already a diversion from RFC 5322 and I was surprised that dpkg had support for it. If we want this to be used outside of Debian, sticking strictly to the syntax for RFC 5322 headers

DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
As mentioned in the other thread, one goal for DEP-5 for me is to make the format sufficiently rich to allow me to use it for the upstream LICENSE file. Towards that end, I have three changes I'd like to have. * An additional section with the same syntax as the Files section but with no Files

Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-08-12 at 17:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: As mentioned in the other thread, one goal for DEP-5 for me is to make the format sufficiently rich to allow me to use it for the upstream LICENSE file. Towards that end, I have three changes I'd like to have. Thanks, that's an interesting

Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi writes: On to, 2010-08-12 at 17:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: * An additional section with the same syntax as the Files section but with no Files field that would be used for documenting the copyright of the distribution as a whole. (In US law, this is called a

Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-08-12 at 22:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi writes: On to, 2010-08-12 at 17:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: * An additional section with the same syntax as the Files section but with no Files field that would be used for documenting the copyright of