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



Hi Russ,

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.

Can you provide a more precise pointer to this feature?  Given that the
early revisions were done by wiki, I'm finding it non-trivial to locate a
specification for this.  I see earlier revisions that seem to include
free-form text in the examples, but nothing that specifies how this is meant
to be parsed.

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