On 11-11-15 at 06:08pm, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:31:05AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:16:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > Le Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:21:58PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > > > > > copyright-format reads: > > > > > | Exceptions and clarifications are signaled in plain text, by > > > > | appending "with <keywords> exception" to the short name. > > > > > However, it is not specified how different keywords are > > > > separated. For example, should one write: > > > > "License: GPL-2+ with OpenSSL and Font exception" or > > > > "License: GPL-2+ with OpenSSL, Font exception" or maybe > > > > "License: GPL-2+ with OpenSSL Font exception"? > > > > I looked at how my favorite parser, config-edit, is doing with > > > exceptions, and if I add a ‘OpenSSL and Font’ or an ‘OpenSSL, > > > Font’ exception, it stops with error at loading… > > > I inspected the 11,575 packages available on the Lintian Lab. 489 > > License statements had the word “exception” in. None of them were > > double exceptions. > > > Is there a concrete example where we need to support multiple > > exceptions ? > > > If not, I propose to follow and document the current practice, which > > is to support only one. This has the advantage that it will not be > > needed to implement new functions in parsers, nor to correct > > copyright files. > > I have no objection to this for 1.0, provided we at the same time > clarify that if more than one exception is in use, you need to use a > custom shortname instead of an ORed or ANDed list of licenses. > > Is there a consensus for this position? > > I think for future versions of the standard, it's worth covering this > case even if it's only a hypothetical; but there's no reason to hold > up 1.0 for something that's going to require parser changes and isn't > in use anywhere.
Above approach sounds reasonable to me. Seconded. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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