Re: DEP5 public-domain Question

[Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>]

Since others have replied regarding the content of the DEP-5 file, I'll focus 
on DEP-5 parser

On Wednesday 20 July 2011 15:39:09 Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Also, the DEP5 checker has no clue about public-domain as a short
> license either:
> 
> $> config-edit -application dpkg-copyright -ui none
> Configuration item 'Files:"scikits/statsmodels/datasets/anes96/anes96.csv
>    scikits/statsmodels/datasets/grunfeld/grunfeld.csv
>    scikits/statsmodels/datasets/longley/longley.csv
>    scikits/statsmodels/datasets/macrodata/macrodata.csv
>    scikits/statsmodels/datasets/nile/nile.csv
>    scikits/statsmodels/datasets/randhie/randhie.csv
>    scikits/statsmodels/datasets/stackloss/stackloss.csv
>    scikits/statsmodels/datasets/strikes/strikes.csv
>    scikits/statsmodels/datasets/sunspots/sunspots.csv" License short_name'
> has a wrong value: license public-domain is not declared in main License
> section. Expected BSD-3

To satisfy DEP5 model constraints, you need to spell out the terms of the 
licence you want to use. Etheir as a "License: public-domain" stand-alone 
section or as text in the File section (after the License: line in the file 
section).

You can also do it on the command line (with libconfig-model-perl 1.250):

$ config-edit -application dpkg-copyright -ui none -save \
  'License:"public-domain" text="there should be a good explanation here"'

All the best

Dominique
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