On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 06:37:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Josh Triplett writes:
> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:53:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> I don't think this is a good idea. This license is extremely short,
> >> and it has a ton of minor variations, so we'll get a lot of peop
Simon McVittie writes:
> It would be great if Policy described what the ftp-masters actually
> require and why, so that maintainers could provide everything that Debian
> needs to avoid legal trouble but no more. At the moment, Policy is rather
> more vague than the actual requirements to get sof
Josh Triplett writes:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:53:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I don't think this is a good idea. This license is extremely short,
>> and it has a ton of minor variations, so we'll get a lot of people
>> using it even though the exactly licensing terms of their package
On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 05:10:52PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 at 21:00:12 -1000, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those
> > packages need to include it in their copyright files.
>
> Although Policy does not say so, t
On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:53:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Josh Triplett writes:
>
> > Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those
> > packages need to include it in their copyright files. I'd love to see
> > this license added to /usr/share/common-licenses/ ; th
Josh Triplett writes:
> Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those
> packages need to include it in their copyright files. I'd love to see
> this license added to /usr/share/common-licenses/ ; this would require a
> Policy change to section 12.5 to allow.
I don't th
On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 at 21:00:12 -1000, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those
> packages need to include it in their copyright files.
Although Policy does not say so, the ftp-masters require the license
grant to be quoted in the copyright fil
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those
packages need to include it in their copyright files. I'd love to see
this license added to /usr/share/common-licenses/ ; this would require a
Policy change to section 12.5 to allow.
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