On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:18:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > As example of free-form comments that do not need a field, there is > > extracts of the correspondance with the authors when some points need to > > be confirmed,
> This is a good point. > > and the traditional “On Debian systems, the complete text of the … > > License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses…”, which can be > > inferred by the parsers themselves. > Oh, hm. I was going to argue that this should be part of the license > text, but that's a very good point. It's actually redundant information > for a Debian-aware parser. For a Debian-aware parser, isn't *all* the text in the license field redundant when referring to a license found in common-licenses? Nevertheless, there's certain text that Debian Policy and the licenses themselves require us to propagate in debian/copyright. I don't see why we would want to put this information in a comment instead of in the License: field. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
