Re: DEP-5: Updates from a general editing pass
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> > A broader question: why single out any license in the policy
> > document? I think the point could be made just as well with “(for
> > example, if they have specific reasons to avoid particular
> > licenses)”.
>
> This language has, so far as I know, been there for some time, and I
> just preserved it while moving it about.
Right, I didn't mean to single you out as the responsible party :-) Your
work just raised the question in my mind.
> But while in general I'm a big fan of giving as many examples as
> possible, giving an example here necessarily involves making a
> controversial statement, so maybe it would be best to do without an
> example, just say that this format provides a way for people to detect
> software under particular licenses, and leave it at that.
I think an example of the form “if they have special reasons to avoid
particular licenses” is better, since it speaks to a rationale without
making controversial statements about any particular license.
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Ben Finney
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