RE: The meaning of "AND" in license expressions [was:Re: call tomorrow, agenda]

2015-05-15 Thread Gary O'Neall
Hi Philippe, Thanks for the context and proposal. I now understand better where the comma proposal is coming from. The proposal to add commas is reasonable and helps with the Debian community. I am still concerned, however, that having 2 ways to express the same semantics is going to be confusi

Re: call tomorrow, agenda

2015-05-15 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
> J Lovejoy wrote: >> The issue identified on the call today (and Mark will correct me if I've >> misstated) is that when AND is used at the file level (Section 4), it's >> clear that both licenses apply to the given file. However, when AND is used >> at the package level (Section 3), it could mea

The meaning of "AND" in license expressions [was:Re: call tomorrow, agenda]

2015-05-15 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
Here is my understanding of how the "AND" thread started: Mark brought up a concern about the meaning of AND. He felt this could be misleading to have to say AND in a top level package without details about what each license applies to which file exactly. And Debian uses a comma to provide a list