Package: dh-make
Version: 0.60
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

while building up a registry of license sniplets suitable for
inclusion in a machine readable debian/copyright file, I came across
the collection in /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/licenses/ and some
questions arose. Could you please check?

Keep in mind I'm neither a copyright lawyer nor I appear as one in
debian-legal or anywhere else.

* artistic

The keyword used is "Artistic". Since the text is, as far as I can
see, actually "Artistic-1.0", I'd suggest to use that one.

* bsd

I'd suggest to use the generalized form where "REGENTS" has been
replaced by "COPYRIGHT HOLDERS" (in the second place "HOLDER"
according to the SPDX registry). See debian-legal[0] why, but feel
free to disagree.

* x11

The keyword used "X11" is unknown to both the Debian policy and the
SPDX registry. That's not illegal but if there's a better keyword,
please use that.

Regards,

    Christoph

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/03/msg00003.html

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  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.18 (SMP w/23 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dh-make depends on:
ii  debhelper  9.20120115
ii  dpkg-dev   1.16.1.2
ii  make       3.81-8.1
ii  perl       5.14.2-7

dh-make recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dh-make suggests:
ii  build-essential  11.5

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