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Re: Odd licenses in debian/copyright (and Format 1.0)



Hello Gregor,
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:32:34PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 05 May 2013 20:45:50 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> 
> > Looking
> > at [1] I only see a finite list of licenses and for those cases (as
> > far as I could determine) none matches. Unfortunately there is no
> > value like "other" to mark those license(s). How should/could I
> > proceed to switch over debian/copyright?
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-field
> says
> "First line: an abbreviated name for the license, or expression
> giving alternatives (see the Short name section for a list of
> standard abbreviations). If there are licenses present in the package
> without a standard short name, an arbitrary short name may be
> assigned for these licenses. These arbitrary names are only
> guaranteed to be unique within a single copyright file."
> 
> So in my understanding, just use a self-made short name.

Thanks!

Greetings

           Helge

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