[ please cc me, I'm not subscribed ] Hi Debian-legal, I'm packaging Dwoo [0] for Debian, which uses a Modified BSD license. Since there are a few files inside Dwoo that use a different license, I thought I'd use the new debian/copyright format [1]. So far so good. Except I've come into a bit of trouble with what to use for the Modified BSD. Debian's license information [2] states that "Modified BSD" is a "common" license, meaning that it is to be found inside /usr/share/common-licenses. However, if one follows the link on that page to the text of the modified BSD license [3], and then diffs that with /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD (which is the only BSD-ish license in there), it's not the same. Furthermore, the new debian/copyright policy [1] doesn't mention Modified BSD at all - it just references BSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD. Which brings me to the quandary of what to put inside debian/copyright. I guess I can put "Modified BSD" and include the license verbatim, as Dwoo ships it in LICENSE, except that now of course I'm curious ;) Cheers, Penny 0: http://dwoo.org 1: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ 2: http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ 3: http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license -- /* --------------------------------------------------- Penny Leach | http://mjollnir.org | http://she.geek.nz GPG: 8347 00FC B5BF 6CC0 0FC9 AB90 1875 120A A30E C22B --------------------------------------------------- */
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