Hi Nicolas, Nicholas Guriev wrote: > I discovered that Linitan does not recognize license expressions in > stand-alone license paragraphs in a d/copyright file. They seem not to > be prohibited by DEP-5 as far as I can tell. Is it really so or do I > read the spec wrong?
I guess the latter. Under https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep5/#license-field in the "Remaining lines" paragraph, there is written "a stand-alone License paragraph matching each license short name listed on the first line". I read that that you can use expressions when declaring the license for a set of files, but not in the stand-alone license paragraphs. > https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep5/#stand-alone-license-paragraph The Example 1 in this section shows you how the stand-alone license paragraphs should be written in your case. > Is this list an appropriate place? An appropriate place, but maybe not the most appropriate place. :-) Since DEP5 is now part of the Debian Policy, the debian-policy list (https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/) might be a better place for this, especially if you think that the current text of the format can be improved for less ambiguity. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
