On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:03:43AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:15:49PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Copyright: Joe Programmer and Bob Hacker, 1996-1999
> License: GPL
> License-details: see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
What if the license doesn't have a name?
> > Copyright-non-freeness: # Brief details of non-freeness here
>
> Again, "License-non-freeness:".
I would much rather see a detailed account of why the package is in
non-free in the package description, so that users can know what they're
getting into *before* they download and/or install the package.
This has the added benefit of requiring changes to only hundreds of
packages, instead of thousands.
-brian (IANADD)
[...]
> The idea of listing the reasons for non-freeness was rejected as being
> too much work for stuff we don't care about. I'd add, on top of that,
> that rewriting 6000 copyright files (for main+contrib+non-free) is a
> HUGE amount of work. I don't think the reasons I've seen posted here
> are sufficient to justify the amount of work required.
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