Re: Bug#487201: MPL in common-licenses and convenience of packaging mozilla extensions

2011-09-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 at 18:01:42 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > how about a repository of ready-made stand-alone license paragraphs ? Perhaps, but be careful with that sort of thing: it may *look* like your package's license, but is it actually the same text? For a long "named" license like the GP

Re: Bug#487201: MPL in common-licenses and convenience of packaging mozilla extensions

2011-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:46:32AM +0100, Ximin Luo a écrit : > > That would be really really ugly pointless code and I'm not going to do that. > Much easier to cp $LICENSE and cat $LICENSE. Hi all, how about a repository of ready-made stand-alone license paragraphs ? This could be easily set u

Bug#487201: MPL in common-licenses and convenience of packaging mozilla extensions

2011-09-01 Thread Ximin Luo
On 01/09/11 07:15, Ben Finney wrote: > > Ximin Luo writes: > >> At the cost of some complexity in code, we can eliminate a lot of >> complexity in our data. > > There is redundancy, yes. Is that what you're calling complexity? Or is > there some significant complexity in the data of the ‘debian