Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes:
> Quoting Ben Finney (2015-05-21 02:14:43)
> > Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes:
> >
> >> Quoting Ben Finney (2015-05-20 08:46:44)
> >>> Is there a place in ‘debian/copyright’ for the text granting license
> >>> to the work, separate from the text of the license itself?
> […]
> > Perhaps an update to the copyright format can allow this information
> > to be captured in a standard machine-parseable way.
>
> Yes. I believe the formally correct approach is to file a bugreport
> against debian-copyright.
Do you mean ‘debian-policy’? (There is no ‘debian-copyright’ package
known to the BTS.)
> Will you do it? I find you far better at phrasing things than me.
I'll attempt it. Thanks for your confidence :-)
> > I'd like to propose a new field, “License-Grant” (maybe a better
> > name can be found). The field is optional, and its value is the
> > verbatim text from the copyright holder, the text that grants some
> > license.
> >
> > How about this::
Since the license grant is prior (conceptually, and also most often
literally in the text) to the license definition, I will propose the
“License-Grant” with examples that always show it between “Copyright”
and “License” fields::
Files: *
Copyright: 2012-2014, Toby Inkster <toby...@cpan.org>
License-Grant:
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language
system itself.
License: Artistic or GPL-1+
Comment:
Perl 5 is licensed under either the 'Artistic license' or the
'GNU General Public License' version 1 or later.
> > Would that field be a good addition to the copyright format
> > definition?
>
> Looks good to me.
I have reported bug#786470 <URL:https://bugs.debian.org/786470> to that
effect. Please find fault or suggest improvements there.
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