Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > I'll simply repeat the rationale here, so that you know why I feel > this is important. The diversity of free software licences means that > Debian does not only need to care about the freeness of a given work, > but also its licence's compatibility with the other parts of Debian it > uses. [...] I have got the feeling that for these cross-checks the proposal is not very useful. I cannot see how to quickly extract the *effective licenses on the built libraries from the copyright file. foo-bar is GPLv3+ libfoo is LGPLv2.1+ libfoo-extend is GPLv3+ cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
