Re: 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

Re: 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 >

Re: 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

Re: 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