Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> writes: > Hi Ben, > > >Debian doesn't consist of licenses; it consists of software works > >under specific grants of license. > > Last time I looked, there was no difference in practice except > for the GFDL. So, DWIM ;-)
That's not the case. Without knowing the grant of license, one doesn't know whether the copyright holder permits, for example, redistribution under the GPL version 2 only, or version 3 only, or the GPL version 3 or any later version, or the recipient's choice of GPL version 3 or CC-By-SA 4.0, etc. So it's essential to know what is the specific *grant of license* from the copyright holder to recipients of the work. > >Are you proposing a Debian package of the MusicXML standard? Or some > >other work? > > I was wondering what to do if there was a piece of software > containing the MusicXML specification or DTDs as part of itself. Do you know of such a work, proposed for inclusion in Debian? If not, I think we shouldn't spend much time on speculation :-) -- \ Lucifer: “Just sign the Contract, sir, and the Piano is yours.” | `\ Ray: “Sheesh! This is long! Mind if I sign it now and read it | _o__) later?” —http://www.achewood.com/ | Ben Finney
