Bug#781654: copyright-format: "IBM CPL" -> "CPL" in license short names table
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 12:08:51PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/copyright-format-1.0.txt.gz
>
> Heya,
> in the short name license tables, shipped as part of the machine readable
> copyright format specification and available online at
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-short-name
>
> the long name of the Common Public License (CPL) is incorrect.
>
> It currently reads "IBM Common Public License", but it should simply be "Common
> Public License", without leading "IBM". This is confirmed by both
> http://spdx.org/licenses/CPL-1.0 (which the table entry points to) and
> http://opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php
I am a bit concerned that the name "Common Public License" is very generic,
though this is probably too late to do something about it.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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