Quoting Ben Finney (2015-05-21 02:14:43) > Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes: > >> Quoting Ben Finney (2015-05-20 08:46:44) >>> Is there a place in ‘debian/copyright’ for the text granting license >>> to the work, separate from the text of the license itself? […] > Perhaps an update to the copyright format can allow this information > to be captured in a standard machine-parseable way. Yes. I believe the formally correct approach is to file a bugreport against debian-copyright. Will you do it? I find you far better at phrasing things than me. >> The pattern I use now is by use of self-invented pseudo-fields >> License-in-Comment (for verbatim text forbidden in License field) and >> Comment-in-License (for non-verbatim text commonly expected), like >> this (from libtype-tiny-perl): >> >>> Files: * >>> Copyright: 2012-2014, Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org> >>> License: Artistic or GPL-1+ >>> Comment: >>> License: >>> . >>> This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it >>> under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system >>> itself. >>> . >>> Comment: >>> . >>> Perl 5 is licensed under either the 'Artistic license' or the 'GNU >>> General Public License' version 1 or later. > > I'd like to propose a new field, “License-Grant” (maybe a better name > can be found). The field is optional, and its value is the verbatim > text from the copyright holder, the text that grants some license. > > How about this:: > > Files: * > Copyright: 2012-2014, Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org> > License: Artistic or GPL-1+ > License-Grant: > This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language > system itself. > Comment: > Perl 5 is licensed under either the 'Artistic license' or the > 'GNU General Public License' version 1 or later. > > Would that field be a good addition to the copyright format > definition? Looks good to me. In fact, if nothing even more sensible emerge I will start using that pattern right now (format 1.0 permits undefined fields). - Jonas P.S. I will probably also drop comment-in-license pseudo-field and instead reference shared license in regular comment field - and treat warnings about License field missing that reference as a bug in lintian. But that's arguably separate issue than the one you raise, so fine you simply ignored commenting on that -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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