Bug#781654: copyright-format: "IBM CPL" -> "CPL" in license short names table
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
>> 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.
> Since the long names from the license table are not formally used in the
> specification, I think that the issue is non-normative and can be
> corrected without changing the revision number in the Format string of
> the Copyright files.
> I am wondering if it would be better to mark the corrected version of
> the specification as 1.0.1 in the text, but keep distributing the files
> as 1.0, or to just correct the version 1.0 without incrementing any
> revision number anywyere.
I vote for just fixing it without changing the revision number for this
sort of minor thing, on the grounds that we shouldn't put too many
obstacles in the way of fixing minor issues.
I've gone ahead and made this fix for the next upload.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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