Sam Hocevar wrote: > Hello, I would like to gather comments about a proposal I have been > thinking about during the GPLv2/v3 and GPLv2/CDDL discussions. I have > finally written down what I have in mind here, and refined it with the > help of many people on IRC: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat That's great, thank you!
Some initial comments: - Even though the GPL/OpenSSL is mentioned explicitely in the rationale, the rest of the document doesn't mention a good way to handle it. - It would be nice (but may be overcomplicated, not sure) to have a field for compatible licenses, probably only in the "other" license case. E.g. monsterz could have a Compatible-License: GPL or a Compatible-License: BSD. That would mostly solve the "other-bsd"/"BSD-like". - I'm not sure if "License: GPL, BSD" for a file makes any sense (it's GPL for all intents and purposes) and I'm afraid it will be (ab)used on a "Files: *" to mean "some files under the BSD, others under the GPL". Overall, this is a very good thing and besides the benefits you mentioned wrt GPLv2/GPLv3/CDDL I think it will help us catch many old bugs. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
