Bug#697134: [copyright-format] Introduce a syntax for BSD-3-Clause variants
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.4.0
Severity: wishlist
Russ Allbery wrote[1]:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 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.
[...]
>> 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.
>> ;-)
>
> Oh, yes, that would work. I missed that my proposed "by" syntax implied
> that the only thing that changed was the copyright holder. Maybe
> "variant" would be a better keyword, taking an arbitrary label.
Filing to avoid forgetting.
Thanks,
Jonathan
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/649530
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