All of the below is now done, I've today done the final bits by splitting BSD into BSD-[234]-clause and renaming some licenses to match the names in SPDX.
As far as I know, these were the final changes that were needed. Does anyone object if I change the status of DEP5 to CANDIDATE, and push the version in bzr to svn at the same time? If nobody objects, I will do that in the early days of January, and announce this on debian-devel-announce. After that, the final steps for the spec should be the following: * integrate the spec with the debian-policy package * as part of that, set up a stable URL Of course, if any bugs in the spec are found, they can and should still be fixed. I hope that no large changes will turn out to be necessary. On ma, 2010-12-20 at 21:43 +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > A summary of differences found by Charles and others, if I have > understood correctly, with comments. > > * SPDX sometimes adds a license version, when we don't, or > adds a ".0" to license version > => ignore? the difference should not matter much > => maybe suggest to SPDX they drop the ".0" > * SPDX does not have some licenses we do (Artistic v1, > CC0, Expat, Perl, GFDL without invariants) > => ignore: it's OK for us to have names for more licenses > => but remove Perl as a shortname in DEP5 > * SPDX has BSD 3 and 4 clause licenses with placeholders > => ignore: we'll just have many variants of BSD (called > other-FOO or whatever) > * BSD license versions > => adopt SPDX naming: BSD-2-clause (from FreeBSD), > BSD-3-clause, BSD-4-clause (do dashes clash with > license version syntax?) > * SPDX represents "or later" as a different license, > where we have a generic syntax, but end result is same > => ignore > * SPDX treats each GPL exception as a separate license > => ignore, and suggest to SPDX they adopt DEP5 approach > * LGPL+ means in SPDX that no version was specified, but no such > convention for the GPL > => ignore, it's their problem, our syntax supports it anyway > * SPDX calls it FDL, DEP5 calls it GFDL > => ask SPDX to rename, since GFDL is the logical name, > otherwise maintain a mapping table > * SPDX calls it Python and Python-CNRI, DEP5 calls it PSF > => rename in DEP5 > * SPDX calls them EFL, W3C, Zlib > => rename in DEP5 > * SPDX links to http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html > => add link to DEP5 > * I've fixed DEP5 to use the right versions for the Perl example > (thanks, gregoa) > > Any comments on this? Did I miss anything, or misunderstand something? > Are all above suggestions acceptable? If so, I'll make the changes and > push things to svn. > > -- > Blog/wiki/website hosting with ikiwiki (free for free software): > http://www.branchable.com/ > > -- Blog/wiki/website hosting with ikiwiki (free for free software): http://www.branchable.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
