Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Russ Allbery wrote:
>>>> It might be worthwhile to recognize some sort of syntax similar to >>>> license exceptions so that one can tag the license as "BSD-3-Clause by >>>> <copyright holder>" or the like. > [...] >>> The next sentence "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE >>> LIABLE" also varies, and not always in the same way as the first. >> I think you may have missed my point. :) I believe that all of those >> variants should, as is currently required, be separately represented in >> the debian/copyright file. > If we change the syntax a little to allow arbitrary identifiers for > each variant, à la "BSD-3-Clause, MIT variant #1", then I think I was > just taking a long time to agree completely with your proposed change. > ;-) Oh, yes, that would work. I missed that my proposed "by" syntax implied that the only thing that changed was the copyright holder. Maybe "variant" would be a better keyword, taking an arbitrary label. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/878v8cit6g....@windlord.stanford.edu
