-=| Ansgar Burchardt, Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 06:54:54PM +0100 |=- > I have prepared an addition to the Perl Group Policy to reflect > this, and to have a template for the common debian/copyright files. > I have attached the new section and the complete patch. Thank you for your work on this, Ansgar. > The preferred format for F<debian/copyright> is the proposed > machine-readable format (as described on > L<http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat>). The Debian > Perl Group must not be listed as a copyright holder, contributors > claiming copyright should list themselves. As long as this format is not obligatory, I have no objections. Thing is, for packages with many copyright holders the new format gets rather bloated (in my experience anyway; and yes, "preferred" is fine by me). > The license for the packaging should not be more restrictive than the upstream > license or the Perl license. Hmm. What if upstream license is GPL-2-only? Can we use a more relaxed license for the packaging? I think not. Why not drop " or the Perl license" from the above? -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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