On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:07:07 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> >License-Alias: Perl > >> Please just use "License" (or make sure to declare an explicit revision > >> of the proposal that still includes -Alias". > >Was that dropped? > Weeell, not dropped, no. But (in my reading) discouraged. > Have a look for yourself (section "License Aliases"): > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat#head-5b203b59a674d35ad07b52329ae64e174e59442b Thanks for the pointer. > What makes me judge it as discouraged is that it was proposed by single > person, backed up by noone, but argued against by Noah, one of the > founders of the proposal, arguing the need is bogus: "Perl" is not a > license. That's why it's "License-Alias" and not "License" :) (And the actual licenses are mentioned in the next line.) I have no strong opinion on that question but if upstream just says "under the same terms as Perl" translating this to "License-Alias: Perl" (and then expanding what it actually means) doesn't seem unlogical to me. > >I haven't seen any REJECTs caused by the very short debian/copyright > >files we've been using since August (which don't necessarily contain > >the exact wording but the Artistic/GPL default text in the > >stand-alone stanzas). > >(Recent example: libsys-gamin-perl) > Not being caught is not same as not in violation. :-) Sure, but I believe that's not the reason for the ACCEPTs :) > My point is that if you are anal then do include each licensing > variation verbatim, and if you are lazy then don't and hold your breath > (and do *not* refer to me if you ever gat complaints about it) :-) I'm all for being accurate but I don't think it really helps in the case of well known standard licenses and clear intentions of the author(s) to copy each and every wording variation. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Don McLean: Dreidel
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