Bug#645696: lintian: missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright is too strict when considering "X+" licenses
Ximin Luo <infinity0@gmx.com> writes:
> The text explaining the "or" part appears nowhere as well, when DEP5
> forces me to split the tri-license paragraph. The two situations are
> equivalent, yet you're choosing different solutions for each!
That's a good point, and I think that's a bug in DEP5.
> Alternatively, treat License stanzas as published licenses, and place
> preamble information in License/Comment entries in File stanzas. This is
> a much cleaner solution and what I had been interpreting DEP5 to mean.
That's certainly a reasonable way of expressing that information. It's
not what DEP5 currently says, though, and I'm fairly sure that's
intentional (from following the original discussion). But it does seem
like a reasonable change.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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