On 25 Feb 2005 11:17:19 GMT MJ Ray wrote:
> Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
> > Well-meaning authors that would like to choose a license that makes
> > their software DFSG-free. [...]
>
> Well-meaning authors can go look at similar packages already
> in main and check the copyright file.
Imitating other licensors and repeating the same poor choices again and
again?
Not all packages in main are under a license I would recommend (think
about DFSG-free but still annoying licenses, such as the 4-clause BSD,
strange "ad hoc" licenses, QPL + additional permissions that make it
DFSG-compliant, and so on...).
I'm not quite sure it would be a good way to enhance the current Free
software situation.
IMHO, license proliferation should be limited as far as possible, not
encouraged...
> That would be much better
> advice, IMO. Actually, the copyright files are all linked from
> packages.debian.org now.
>
> If anyone thinks it's a good idea to generate indexes from
> copyright files, I'm happy to help, but I don't have a local
> debian mirror to play with.
Could you elaborate?
What do you mean by indexes in this context?
Something like database indexes?
>
> > MJ Ray wrote:
> > > Here's an interesting point - where summaries are required, they
> > > have happened outside the "DLS" series. The two most commonly
> > > referred to (FDL and CC 2.0) are not DLS.
> > Maybe because they have happened *before* the "DLS" series started
> > (I'm referring to the GFDL ones; the CC 2.0 summary is a different
> > story).
>
> CC 2.0 was definitely not before DLS. I'll take your word on the
> FDL/DLS timing. The 1997 DLS date shown on the web is clearly fake.
Wait a second: 1997 ??? 8-|
I thought DLS meant "Debian Legal Summary", but now I'm confused... :p
IIRC, the debian legal summary practice was first proposed and started
in 2003 and, again IIRC, *after* the first public position statements
about the GFDL appeared on the web...
But of course, I may well be wrong: I was following debian-legal on its
web archives only, at that time (reading all the 2003 GFDL-related
threads via web was a real 'adventure'!).
If some long-time debian-legal contributor recalls any better, he/she is
welcome to correct me! :)
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