Quoting Ben Finney (2015-05-22 02:16:30) > Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes: >> Quoting Ben Finney (2015-05-21 02:14:43) >>> 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.)
Yes. Silly me. > 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. > Beautiful! I will adopt that stylistic detail! >>> 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. Excellent. Further comments (if any) there :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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