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Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues



On 08/13/2010 01:08 AM, Craig Small wrote:
> My suggestions:
>   * Split out the authors and the copyright dates into one chunk.  The
>     fact that fileA is copyright 2005 Joe and fileB is copyright 2006
>     Fred and then fileC is copyright 2006 both of this is completely 
>     irrelevant for most people, just that Joe and Fred have copyright 
>     of some parts of the package is enough.
> 
>   * Make it possible to say "this package is licensed under foo 
>     except fileA which is licensed under bar"

Also it should be possible to say something like "this package is licensed under
license FOO, but with the following exceptions" - and then add a field which
takes a longish text with the exceptions.

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