Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>> Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> It might be worthwhile to recognize some sort of syntax similar to
>>> license exceptions so that one can tag the license as "BSD-3-Clause by
>>> <copyright holder>" or the like.
[...]
>> The next sentence "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
>> LIABLE" also varies, and not always in the same way as the first.
>
> I think you may have missed my point. :) I believe that all of those
> variants should, as is currently required, be separately represented in
> the debian/copyright file.
If we change the syntax a little to allow arbitrary identifiers for
each variant, à la "BSD-3-Clause, MIT variant #1", then I think I was
just taking a long time to agree completely with your proposed change.
;-)
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