Re: Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:22:47PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Here are reasons why I do not think that licenses inspired by the BSD license > can be efficiently classified by counting the number of clauses. > > First, the license of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source code > copyr

Re: Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:57:05AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > Carsten Hey writes: > > > It's might not be obvious for all which BSD licenses are meant by "BSD" > > and "FreeBSD", thus I propose appending " (3-clause BSD)" and > > respectively " (2-clause BSD)" to their descriptions. > > That'

Re: Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:57:05AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Carsten Hey writes: > > It's might not be obvious for all which BSD licenses are meant by "BSD" > > and "FreeBSD", thus I propose appending " (3-clause BSD)" and > > respectively " (2-clause BSD)" to their descriptions. > > That's even

Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Finney
Carsten Hey writes: > It's might not be obvious for all which BSD licenses are meant by "BSD" > and "FreeBSD", thus I propose appending " (3-clause BSD)" and > respectively " (2-clause BSD)" to their descriptions. That's even more ambiguous, though. It doesn't say *which* clauses; any three-clau

Re: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork)

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, a few remarks about DEP #5: "The Expat License" is rather unknown under this name, thus I propose adding a comment like this to its description: Expat The Expat License (often referred as MIT license, see comment in *Problematic Licenses*) It's might not be obvious for a

DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork)

2009-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi folks, Per the DEP process described at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/, this is the (belated) announcement that DEP #5 has been taken for discussion of... "Machine-readable debian/copyright". Title: Machine-readable debian/copyright DEP: 5 State: DRAFT Date: 2