Re: Can a license be "DFSG approved"?

2017-10-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Wise writes ("Re: Can a license be "DFSG approved"?"): > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 9:53 PM, David Seaward wrote: > > I was also reminded of the comment below, and wondered in retrospect if > > a flagging licenses as "DFSG approved" actually makes sense? > > The DFSG is not a body that can

Re: Can a license be "DFSG approved"?

2017-10-27 Thread David Seaward
Hi Paul, On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 14:50 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > The DFSG is not a body that can approve things. You could say "DFSG > compatible", or "foo version X under license Y was approved by the > Debian ftp-masters". Thanks for the clarification. Your comment about compatibility matches a

Re: Can a license be "DFSG approved"?

2017-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 9:53 PM, David Seaward wrote: > I suggested DFSG flagging, and SPDX are interested in a machine- > readable status list. [2] Is there such a thing? There is not such a thing. > I was also reminded of the comment below, and wondered in retrospect if > a flagging licenses