Le Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:23:12PM +0200, Jari Aalto a écrit : > I'd like to propose updates to: > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
Dear Jari, while I think that the examples can be improved in a future version of the DEP, I have objections for the changes you proposed. > (1) Use URL instead of real FSF address everywhere The examples contain license notices for the GNU GPL version 2, and in these there is no URL but the postal address. The current practice in Debian is to update if needed the postal address in the GPL notices version 1 and 2 (lintian tag old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file), but not to replace them by the URL of the latest GPL. I would prefer that the examples do make implicit suggestions to do so. > (2) No ending commas in years I would apply this change if it were supported by more people, but given that the object of DEP 5 is to record upstream license and copyright statements, and given that Upstreams write such statements using many different styles, I would prefer to not normalise the examples and give the impression that the copyright statements need to be normalised to be compliant with the machine-readable format. > (3) Uniform Layout Different parsers and helpers arrange the Copyright field in different ways, so again I am worried to send the wrong implicit message if all the examples would follow one or the other convention. I think that the current examples are quite dry and do not bring much help to resolve difficult cases, and for the next revision, I encourage to propose more in-depth changes as a bug to the debian-policy package. But let's go ahead with the examples as they are now. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120212014402.gd7...@falafel.plessy.net
