Re: Artistic License 2.0 -> copyright file

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On 20/09/15 22:10, Jonathon Love wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm packaging r-cran-bms which is released under the Artistic-2.0
> license, but i'm never quite sure what to put in the copyright file. for
> GPL2, GPL2+, etc. i just go and find an existing package, and pillage
> it's copyright file, i.e.:
>
> ==========
>
> Files: *
> Copyright: 2010-2013 Martin Feldkircher, Stefan Zeugner
> License: GPL-2
>
> License: GPL-2
>   This program is free software; you can redistribute it
>   and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
>   License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
>   version 2.
>   .
>   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
>   useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
>   warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
>   PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
>   details.
>   .
>   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
>   License along with this package; if not, write to the Free
>   Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
>   Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
>   .
>   On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public
>   License version 2 can be found in the file
>   `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
>
> ===========
>
> but this is not the same as the content of the license itself. this is a
> statement that the file is licensed under GPL2. i'm looking for the
> equivalent 'blurb' if you like, for the Artistic license 2.0, but
> whenever i google it, i just get the license itself.
>
> any tips on how i track down/create the appropriate blurb?
>
> with thanks
>
> jonathon

Very few license actually have a short statement like the one you quote 
for the GPL-2. For the others, including Artistic-2.0, the full content 
of the license must be copy-pasted verbatim in d/copyright.

Ghis