Le Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:00:47AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:58:48AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I don't know that there need to be any normative changes to correct this, > > but I think there definitely need to be some clearer pointers to an external > > reference for the license definitions for these short names. > > This is a very good point: beside debates on which short name should > correspond to which license, we need to provide a reliable (and > DEP5-authoritative) key-value mapping from short names to full text > licenses.
The current version of the DEP specifies that the differences with the SPDX format will be tracked. My understanding of this, and the discussions we had before, is that we will use the same short names than SPDX unless specified otherwise. The SPDX list includes a full copy of the license, and a beta program is starting, with the aim of releasing a spec within three months. http://spdx.org/wiki/beta-program-doc-and-email-blurb I think that if they acheive their schedule, SPDX 1.0 will be out before DEP5 is declared ACCEPTED. Then we could simply refer to SPDX 1.0 and its license list, which is comprehensive. Also, if we have additions or changes to suggest, it is perhaps not too late. Also, it is not too late to ask the Linux Foundation that the SPDX specification will be redistributable by Debian. Its license is Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, and according to the Debian wiki it may be acceptable in our archive. But we will need the source PDF. Also, some license texts themselves are not modifiable, but since we already make an exception for the GPL, we may make one for them as well ? For the current list in the DEP's revision 154, I think that Lars forgot to remove the FreeBSD license when he added the BSD-2-clause, which is how SPDX calls it. I can also add links to the licenses in the DEP, following the patch that I sent earlier (http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
