Re: Creating a Debtags 'license' facet
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:32:14PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimar?es wrote:
> * Andrew Suffield ::
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:17:42PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:06:48PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > > > You've got a problem with this one, because licenses can be
> > > > combined conjunctively and disjunctively. So a package might
> > > > be both entirely under foo and entirely under bar (foo ||
> > > > bar), or it might be partially under foo and partially under
> > > > bar (foo && bar).
> > >
> > > If that is the only problem, a package can be tagged with more
> > > than one tag even from the same facet, which would be good
> > > enough to categorise your two examples.
> >
> > Imagine a package that can be distributed if you meet the terms
> > of:
> >
> > - the GPL
> > - both the MIT license and the 4-clause BSD license,
> > simultaneously
> > - both the MIT license and the Artistic license, simultaneously
> >
> > How would you tag this, so as to capture all this information?
>
> ( GPL ) || ( MIT && 4BSD ) || ( MIT && Artistic )
>
> ?? :-) this is the easy one, what if some files are provided under
> each of those licenses? GPL + (MIT && 4BSD) + (MIT && Artistic)?
Although it is not precise, it might help to have a "multiple-license"
tag. Probably everything more fine-grained has to be manually
reviewed, anyway. Just tag each package with every license which is
somehow related to the license of that package, and hope that there
aren't a bajillion libraries (which are probably the easiest use of
this type of tagging: "What libraries are compatible with the program
I already have or want to have") which do a given thing which also
match a semi-complicated license condition (like, "!BSD && !GPL").
Justin
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