Le Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:53:21PM +0000, Ximin Luo a écrit : > https://github.com/infinity0/debian-policy/compare/bug649350-infinity0 > > I've split up my previous patch into more manageable chunks, and added > extra explanations in the commit messages. > > I'm trying to follow the principle that the commit messages should > already contain enough justification for the changes, but if any of them > are unclear, please do ask me for further detail. > > (Further potential additions, which I've omitted for simplicity, include > License-Exception: fields, and Location: fields to formalise the concept > of a "pointer" to a License.)
Dear Ximin, It was nice to split the patch and document the chunks, but I am still not convinced that the changes you propose are useful. In particular, I do not see the benefit from using a syntax for the license short names, especially that SPDX and other projects do not have one (for instance GPL-2 and GPL-2+ are seen as separate short names). Also, creating a syntax is a complex project that I think is beyond the scope of our machine-readable format. There are corner cases, for instance BSD-3-Clause is not the upgrade from BSD-2-Clause, or MPL-1.1 can be upgraded to MPL-2.0 despite its short name is not MPL-1.1+, etc. If you would like to work on a robust syntax, I propose you do it as an independant specification that can later be proposed for adoption not ony to use, but also to SPDX, OSI, ADMS.F/OSS, etc. Another change that you propose and that I disagree with is to "forbid author- and software-specific information" in stand-alone paragaphs. A lot of derivatives from the BSD licenses contain such information. Despite we link to a SPDX page where the BSD license terms are generic, I do not think that the intent in Debian's machine-readable format to is consider them all the same. At least in my copyright files I only use "BSD-3-Clause" if the copyright owners are the regents of the university of California. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121224103152.ga5...@falafel.plessy.net
