Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:49:34AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Hi.
>
> http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ (and every other mirror of
> course).
>
> Please take a look and comment. The pages are currently not linked nor
> mentioned on the rest of the website. I will add this after giving you
> some time for feedback and improval suggestions.
>
I have now looked closer at the pages, and they are even better
than I first thought! Thanks!
Here are some small ideas that no one else seem to have posted:
1. When the page goes real, make www.d.org/licenses and
www.d.org/copyright alternate names for the first page, and
establish cross linking with www.d.org/license (to catch the
obvious typos).
2. The non-free OSL has been given the honor of being license
number 001-1 Maybe you should cheat and make it number 100-1,
then the top free licenses can get the honors of having the
low numbers.
As a precedent, the Linux counter (counter.li.org) has
manually reserved "Linux user #1" for Linus Thorvalds even
though he has not yet signed up on the site (which has been up
for more than 10 years). All other users are numbered as they
sign up.
Following DFSG#10 as a sequence, the low numbers can be
assigned systematically to free licenses deserving special
honor, leaving gaps for any not yet written summaries and
likely future license versions, something like this:
[Remember DFSG#10 traditionally listed "GPL", "BSD", and
"Artistic" in that order]
001-1 GPLv1
002-1 GPLv2
003 reserved for GPLv3
004 reserved for future use
005-1 LGPLv2.0
006-1 LGPLv2.1
007 reserved for the next LGPL
008 to 009 reserved to future good FSF licenses
010-1 classic short one paragraph unnumbered permission notice
011-1 classic 3 clause BSD with advertising clause
012-1 2 clause BSD with no advertising clause
013-1 classic 4 clause BSD with advertising clause
014-1 3 clause BSD with no advertising clause
015 to 019 other major BSD style licenses
020 reserved for future use
021-1 Artistic license
022-1 Clarified Artistic license
023 to 029 reserved for future perl or artistic licenses
030-1 Genuine public domain (mostly literary works, US gov, bible)
031-1 Plain claim of public domain assignment
032-1 Public domain assignment combined with equivalent permission
033 to 038 other public domain variants
039-1 Public Domain by name only (warning against confused use).
040 to 099 other major free licenses deserving an honor number
100-1 OSLv2
3. http://people.debian.org/~bap/NOTES includes an old checklist
of things to put on these pages, most is already there, but
you might be inspired.
Once again, THANKS!
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