Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Charles Plessy wrote: >> Sorry for the confusion between new field and new paragraph. Still, I >> think that we are spending a lot of time discussing refinements that >> need to demonstrate their usefulness by being adopted independantly by >> a broad number of package

Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: > Sorry for the confusion between new field and new paragraph. Still, I think > that we are spending a lot of time discussing refinements that need to > demonstrate their usefulness by being adopted independantly by a broad number > of package maintainers. Stepping back a l

Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:00:33AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Unfortunately that would involve violating the spec. The current > > specification requires that every paragraph be a header paragraph, a > > Files paragraph, or a License paragraph. License-Exception paragraphs > > are not allowe

Re: Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/12/12 12:34, Ximin Luo wrote: > Example: > > | Files: X > | Copyright: A > | License: BSD-3-Clause > | Copyright 2012 A > | terms etc I don't think this is the problem: if the first two lines of /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD ("Copyright (c)... All rights reserved") were ignored or remove

Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Ximin Luo
On 26/12/12 23:39, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Charles Plessy wrote: > >> If experimentations are blocked because the current specification does not >> allow unspecified types of paragraphs, how about considering to relax it ? > > I honestly think that License-Exception stanzas already are a > funda