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Bug#645696: lintian: missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright is too strict when considering "X+" licenses



On 15/11/11 21:34, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
> 

OK, cool :) I will write up a more detailed description of this and submit it
to debian-policy tonight.

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