Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Markus Koschany wrote: >> freeorion: [1] >> >> Rather sophisticated game GPL-2 licensed but with various contributions >> / incorporations under different licenses. So I can't just write Files: >> * -> GPL-2. I have to list all licenses with separate paragraphs [...] > Loo

Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Markus Koschany wrote: > freeorion: [1] > > Rather sophisticated game GPL-2 licensed but with various contributions > / incorporations under different licenses. So I can't just write Files: > * -> GPL-2. I have to list all licenses with separate paragraphs and > there is no way to change that with

Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 28.12.2017 um 22:19 schrieb Jonathan Nieder: > Hi, > > Markus Koschany wrote: > >> I still have to quote license texts verbatim. The only >> "advantage" of the old format is that I can format d/copyright more >> freely but the same information must be present anyway. It is simply

Processed: Re: [INPUT REQUIRED] debian-policy: allow specifying common licenses with only the identifier

2017-12-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # Joerg Jaspert wrote: > # > # > Fine. > tags 883950 - moreinfo Bug #883950 [debian-policy] debian-policy: allow specifying common licenses with only the identifier Removed tag(s) moreinfo. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please cont

Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Markus Koschany writes: > Why do we add the BSD license to common-licenses but not MIT and zlib? I'm not sure why the BSD license was included in common-licenses originally. My theory was that it was to include all the licenses mentioned by name in the DFSG. However, the version in common-lice

Bug#883950: [INPUT REQUIRED] Re: Bug#883950: debian-policy: allow specifying common licenses with only the identifier

2017-12-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14900 March 1977, Markus Koschany wrote: > Allow the use of the short-license identifier only in the form: > Files: foo.bar > Copyright: 2017, Smith > License: [GPL-2+] > without the extra standalone paragraph which will mean exactly the > same as > License: GPL-2+ > On Debian systems the ful

Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Markus Koschany wrote: > I still have to quote license texts verbatim. The only > "advantage" of the old format is that I can format d/copyright more > freely but the same information must be present anyway. It is simply not > feasible to educate all upstreams in existence to wri

Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 28.12.2017 um 20:39 schrieb Jonathan Nieder: > Markus Koschany wrote: >> Am 28.12.2017 um 11:21 schrieb Bill Allombert: >>> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 01:56:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Jonathan Nieder writes: > > Seconded. license-count says this makes sense: SIL

Bug#883950: [INPUT REQUIRED] Re: Bug#883950: debian-policy: allow specifying common licenses with only the identifier

2017-12-28 Thread Markus Koschany
Dear FTP team, the Policy editors request your attention and a decision regarding Debian bug #883950: debian-policy: allow specifying common licenses with only the identifier. Summary of the proposal === Situation = Debian Policy 12.5 "Copyright information" declares

Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 28.12.2017 um 11:21 schrieb Bill Allombert: >> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 01:56:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Jonathan Nieder writes: Seconded. >>> >>> license-count says this makes sense: >>> >>> SIL OFL 1.0 12 >>> SIL OFL 1.1 159 >>>

Bug#884225: debian-policy: please add CC-BY-4.0 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 27.12.2017 um 22:55 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Jonathan Nieder writes: >> Markus Koschany wrote: > >>> as discussed on debian-devel [1] I would like to request that more DFSG >>> licenses are added to /usr/share/common-licenses and that package >>> maintainers are allowed to reference them. > >>

Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 28.12.2017 um 11:21 schrieb Bill Allombert: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 01:56:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder writes: >>> Markus Koschany wrote: >> as discussed on debian-devel [1] I would like to request that more DFSG licenses are added to /usr/share/common-licenses

Bug#884225: debian-policy: please add CC-BY-4.0 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 at 13:55:37 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > CC-BY-SA 3.0285 > CC-BY-SA 4.0 61 > > 4.0 is a pretty niche license right now. Maybe that's expected to grow at > the cost of 3.0, though I would hope that it is expected to grow, given that CC-BY-SA 3.0 has

Re: Bug#884224: ebian-policy: please add CC-BY-3.0 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 at 13:54:41 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > license-count numbers: > > CC-BY 1.0 2 > CC-BY 2.0 3 > CC-BY 2.511 > CC-BY 3.0 165 > CC-BY 4.028 > CC-BY-SA 1.0 3 > CC-BY-SA 2.0 44 >

Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses

2017-12-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 01:56:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: > > Markus Koschany wrote: > > >> as discussed on debian-devel [1] I would like to request that more DFSG > >> licenses are added to /usr/share/common-licenses and that package > >> maintainers are allowed to