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Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"



On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:41:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
>
> > Is there some particular thing you think I want that makes things hard
> > for you?
>
> Well, you could restore the feature that was present in earlier versions
> of the draft that allowed arbitrary free-form text to be mixed into the
> copyright file to explain things that aren't part of the bits that have
> a fixed format or that aren't easily expressed that way.  That would
> strike a better balance in some places, I think.

I've not been able to contribute to the current draft because I am not a
developer and the repository still doesn't have the correct permissions on it. I
have not produced a patch, because I have been waiting for this.

The last time I checked, there was a Comment field or similar.

Best,

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater


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