Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> writes: > neither inside /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic nor in > /usr/share/doc/base-files/README nor in > /usr/share/doc/base-files/changelog.gz is declared (or even hinted) > which version or variant of "The Artistic License" is shipped in > /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic.
> According to https://spdx.org/licenses/ there are at least five > registered versions and variants of the Artistic License: > * Artistic License 1.0 > * Artistic License 1.0 (Perl) What does SPDX think the difference between these two is? The original Artistic License was the one that shipped with Perl, so I'm confused about what the difference would be. > Please clearly state inside the file We should not modify the license texts included in common-licenses. The files contain exactly the license text as distributed by the author of the license. That's a nice property that we should not be changing. There's no harm in spelling out which one is intended in README, though. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
