Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:06:53AM -0500, Jari Aalto a écrit : > > In my opinion, we should follow strictly how FSF recommends the GPL to be > presented. The use of postal addresses is no longer the FSF's current > postion. Le Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:14:36AM -0500, Jari Aalto a écrit : > > I th

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-15 Thread Jari Aalto
2012-02-11 20:44 Charles Plessy : | Le Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:23:12PM +0200, Jari Aalto a écrit : |> (2) No ending commas in years | | I would apply this change if it were supported by more people, but given | that the object of DEP 5 is to record upstream license and copyright | statements, and g

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-15 Thread Jari Aalto
2012-02-11 20:44 Charles Plessy : | Le Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:23:12PM +0200, Jari Aalto a écrit : | http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ | | > (1) Use URL instead of real FSF address everywhere | | The examples contain license notices for the GNU GPL version 2, and in | these there is no URL but t

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:25:38AM +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > > So, something like this: > > Copyright: 2012, John Doe > 2012, Homer Simpson > > rather than: > > Copyright: 2012, John Doe > 2012, Homer Simpson > > right? If so, could this be written explicitly in the DEP5 > speci

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/12/2012 12:08 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Copyright field in DEP-5 is now a freeform text field (rather than > line-based) to address the problem that some copyright statements are > longer than one line. That means that it may make sense to apply the > wrapping rules of Description to it,

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/11/2012 10:27 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> -Copyright: 1993 John Doe >> - 1993 Joe Average >> +Copyright: >> + 1993 John Doe >> + 1993 Joe Average >> >> Rationale: The whole document uses one-space indent for consequtive >> lines. >> > No, this cha

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > On 02/11/2012 10:27 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> No, this change is actually incorrect. It should have at least two >> spaces of indent for all the subsequent lines to preserve formatting if >> a formatter uses the semantics of the control Description field. (And >> I pre

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:23:12PM +0200, Jari Aalto a écrit : > I'd like to propose updates to: > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ Dear Jari, while I think that the examples can be improved in a future version of the DEP, I have objections for the changes you proposed. > (1) Use URL ins

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-02-11 at 06:27am, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jari Aalto writes: > > > (3) Uniform Layout > > > E.g. > > > -Copyright: 1993 John Doe > > - 1993 Joe Average > > +Copyright: > > + 1993 John Doe > > + 1993 Joe Average > > > Rationale: The whole document uses o

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Jari Aalto writes: > (3) Uniform Layout > E.g. > -Copyright: 1993 John Doe > - 1993 Joe Average > +Copyright: > + 1993 John Doe > + 1993 Joe Average > Rationale: The whole document uses one-space indent for consequtive > lines. No, this change is actua

Re: DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-02-11 at 12:23pm, Jari Aalto wrote: > > I'd like to propose updates to: > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ > > (1) Use URL instead of real FSF address everywhere [...] > (2) No ending commas in years [...] > (3) Uniform Layout I agree wit those changes - assuming it affects only exa

DEP5: minor suggestions - FSF address etc.

2012-02-11 Thread Jari Aalto
I'd like to propose updates to: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ (1) Use URL instead of real FSF address everywhere -You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public -License along with this package; if not, write to the Free -Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St,