Charles Plessy wrote:
> would the following changes solve the problem with license exceptions ?
Here's some tweaks for application on top. With these tweaks, I'm
happy with it.
copyright-format/copyright-format.xml | 14 ++++++++------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/copyright-format/copyright-format.xml
b/copyright-format/copyright-format.xml
index 3ae033dc..e125f705 100644
--- a/copyright-format/copyright-format.xml
+++ b/copyright-format/copyright-format.xml
@@ -323,10 +323,12 @@ License: GPL-2+</programlisting>
<section id="stand-alone-license-paragraph">
<title>Stand-alone License Paragraph (Optional, Repeatable)</title>
<para>
- Stand-alone <varname>License</varname> paragraphs expand license short
- names, optionally followed by an exception statement, and are useful
- in particular with sets of files that are dual (tri, etc) licensed, or
- when the same license occurs multiple times.
+ Stand-alone <varname>License</varname> paragraphs can be used to
+ provide the full license text for a given license once, instead of
+ once for each <varname>Files</varname> paragraph that refers to it.
+ The first line of the <varname>License</varname> field must be a
+ single license short name or a short name followed by a license
+ exception.
</para>
<para>
The following fields may be present in a stand-alone License
@@ -467,9 +469,9 @@ License: MPL-1.1
</para>
<para>
Remaining lines: if left blank here, the file
- <emphasis>must</emphasis> include one or more<link
+ <emphasis>must</emphasis> include a <link
linkend="stand-alone-license-paragraph">stand-alone License
- paragraphs</link> matching the first line's license short
+ paragraph</link> matching each of the first line's license short
names, with their exception if any.
Otherwise, this field should either
include the full text of the license(s) or include a pointer to the
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