Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:19:34PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > I've committed the below patch to the dep repo on svn.debian.org. > > === modified file 'web/deps/dep5.mdwn' > --- old/web/deps/dep5.mdwn2011-11-11 15:27:02 + > +++ new/web/deps/dep5.mdwn2011-11-25 20:15:33 + > @@ -1

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-25 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:19:34PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > I've committed the below patch to the dep repo on svn.debian.org. That looks fine to me too. It's a sensible compromise to having everything specified off the short name and not putting too much scope-creep into the short name. wrt

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
I've committed the below patch to the dep repo on svn.debian.org. === modified file 'web/deps/dep5.mdwn' --- old/web/deps/dep5.mdwn 2011-11-11 15:27:02 + +++ new/web/deps/dep5.mdwn 2011-11-25 20:15:33 + @@ -1036,12 +1036,27 @@ target="_top">many versions of the MIT licen

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:03:27 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > 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

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 03:08:25 Steve Langasek wrote: > 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

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-16 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 06:08:25PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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 t

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-16 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:31:05AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > 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 ne

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Steve Langasek , 2011-11-15, 18:08: 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,

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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: > > > > > |

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
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, b

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
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 exception" to the short name. > > > >

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 03:16:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > SPDX uses one short name per combination of license and exception. I did > not like it at the beginning as I find it inelegant, but in the end it > would be simpler. With that syntax, ‘GPL-2+ with OpenSSL and Font > exceptions’ wo

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Executive summary for the CCed DEP-5 parser writers (and apologises for those I forgot): this is about how to signal multiple exceptions to a license. Le Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:33:58PM -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > You can always say GPL-2+-with-anything as a custom license name, but the >

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Steve Langasek wrote: > However, the history of the draft shows that people are concerned > about knowing whether *specific* common exceptions are in effect Good point. For example, the "GPL-2 with OpenSSL exception" and "OpenSSL" licenses are compatible, while GPL-2 and the OpenSSL licenses are

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:16:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > 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 exception" to the short name. > > However, it is

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: > 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… As a workaround, "with exception" might work, making this "GPL-2+ with OpenSSL exception with

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-11-14 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org limit package debian-policy usertags 633797 + normative usertags 633797 + issue thanks 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 >

Bug#633797: copyright-format: "with exception" underspecified

2011-07-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 (liw told me that this the correct place to report bugs in DEP5 specification. If this is not the case, please blame him. :P) copyright-format reads: | Exceptions and clarifications are signaled in plain text, by appending | "with exception" to the sho