Hi again,
thanks for fixing this so quickly.
Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Another thing which I think would solve this issue easily, but which
> > may have some side effects I'm not yet aware of, would be to rename
> > the file to "Artistic-1.0-Perl" (or whatever) and make "Artistic" a
> > symlink to it, analogous how it's done for the different GPL versions.
>
> That would be a possibility to which I'm not opposed in principle,
Happy to hear.
Do we need a minor/wishlist bug to track this?
> but for now I'm just going to clarify what we currently have without
> doing any major changes.
Yeah, bad time for opening pandora's box. Needed to be done, though.
:-)
> This is really a more complex problem
Definitely.
> and it should ideally be solved by the policy group, as they are who
> really decide about the contents of common-licenses (there is a
> question in the base-files FAQ about this).
*nod*
Niko Tyni wrote:
> For the record, I intend to scan at least the 3000 pkg-perl packages
> to see how common the Artistic license variants are and how they are
> reflected in debian/copyright files.
Thanks! So I can remove that from my TODO list again. :-)
If you don't intent to post the results on debian-perl@ldo, I'd be
happy if you could keep me in the line as I intent to write a lintian
test for the Artistic license differences after having had a look at
the results of this/your check.
> There's quite some possibility for errors in debian/copyright
> declarations due to confusion between the variants.
Yep. I think, we're lucky that /u/s/c-l/Artistic is the Perl one as
most perl modules are licensed "under the same terms as Perl".
> This should also help us estimate whether the variants might warrant
> addition in base-files.
Indeed. Good point.
Regards, Axel (happy that this didn't cause too much havoc :-)
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