Re: DEP5 Files: paragraph with both abbreviated names and license paragraph

[Klee Dienes <klee@MIT.EDU>]

On Feb 5, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

My recommendation would be, for the time being, to write this as:

License: GPL-3.0 or BSD-3-clause or HIDAPI
Comment: At the discretion of the user of this library,
[…]

Thanks!  We were debating between the Comment: approach and just letting lintian complain.  We’ll go with the Comment: approach.

In the long run, I would be in favor of making your approach unambiguously
valid in a subsequent copyright-format 1.1 revision.

Great!  I filed my original message as #737796 and will follow up with a proposed patch unless someone else takes the lead.