Re: Lintian warnings converting copyright to machine-readable

[Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>]

"Jose G. López" <josgalo@gmail.com> writes:

> License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-or-later or CC0-1.0
>  or CC-BY-3.0 or LGPL-2.1-or-later or GPL-2.0-or-later

That specification would mean the recipient can choose to redistribute
the work under *any* of those license conditions. I think that is not
what you mean to specify.

Rather, for a work combining components with many different license
conditions, the typical case is that the work must be redistributed
compliant with *all* the conditions simultaneously.

See the specification for the “License” field, in §7.2:

    In case of multi-licensing, the license short names are separated by
    `or` when the user can chose between different licenses, and by
    `and` when use of the work must simultaneously comply with the terms
    of multiple licenses.

    <URL:https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-syntax>

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