Ximin Luo <infini...@gmx.com> writes: > There's a perfectly sensible way to represent it - write a stanza for > GPL2, not GPL2+. It's perfectly clear, just as the following is clear:
> Files: X; License: A or B > License: A; fulltext > License: B; fulltext > Not having stanzas for 3,4,or5 is a different issue, and the > separate-GPL2+ method has this issue too. > Files: X; License: A+ > License: A: fulltext > vs > Files: X; License: A+ > License: A+: fulltext > Please explain why the former version is somehow less coherent, or makes > "less sense". Because the *text* explaining the "+" part appears nowhere in the file in this case, and I don't believe that's acceptable. We need to include the legal statement from upstream, not just make it implicit in the "GPL-2+" tag in the file. > Nitpicking uncomfortable corners now saves headaches in the future; > besides I already proposed a solution, so why is it a problem? Because I think your solution is wrong. :) > The reason I know about this example is because I have already come > across similar situations. If you make the conceptual mistake of > including preamble with the license, you must have multiple license > blocks for each preamble. That's correct. That's my understanding, also, of what ftpmaster says that people should do. > For example, the MPL standard preamble lists all the different types of > authors, instead of being a general preamble. If you have 2 distinct > premables, it would be absurd to have both in the MPL License: > paragraph, yet that is exactly what above example suggests for GPL2. There may be some missing DEP5 feature for representing this, but I believe that both of those preambles do indeed need to be in the copyright file, at least ideally. Not having them both is something I consider a bug. (The severity of the bug is arguable.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
