Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 14:25:47 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > As others in this thread have pointed out, Debian explicitly omits > classifying license fulltexts as "free software" or "non-free software". Frankly speaking, I cannot find a message in this thread where others pointed out that

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-16 Thread MJ Ray
2019-12-15 1:26:28 PM Jonas Smedegaard : [...] > As others in this thread have pointed out, Debian explicitly omits > classifying license fulltexts as "free software" or "non-free software". > > As I understand it, you personally classify license fulltexts as > "non-free software" and then add a

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-15 Thread jrb3-beckenbach.us
Greetings, all! [Lurker in the Debian space, decloaking to ask a clarification.] On 15 Dec 2019, at 07:01, Francesco Poli wrote: > > But can DFSG-free data be prepared for the test suite of a program > intended to identify licenses?!? How can I test whether the program is > able to identify

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Francesco Poli (2019-12-15 13:01:16) > On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:41:14 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Francesco Poli (2019-12-14 17:22:09) > [...] > > > I don't think the exception may also apply when the license text > > > is the *actual payload* of the package (for instance,

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-15 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:41:14 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Francesco Poli (2019-12-14 17:22:09) [...] > > I don't think the exception may also apply when the license text is > > the *actual payload* of the package (for instance, a package shipping > > the text for CC-by-nc-nd-v1.0,

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Francesco Poli (2019-12-14 17:22:09) > On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 14:01:18 +0100 Baptiste BEAUPLAT wrote: > > > On 12/14/19 1:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > A rich collection of Free license fulltexts is relevant, not only > > > for our users to pick from (even on a lonely island) and

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 14:01:18 +0100 Baptiste BEAUPLAT wrote: > On 12/14/19 1:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > A rich collection of Free license fulltexts is relevant, not only for > > our users to pick from (even on a lonely island) and copy into new > > development project, but also as

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Baptiste BEAUPLAT (2019-12-14 15:12:38) > On 12/14/19 2:01 PM, Baptiste BEAUPLAT wrote: > > On 12/14/19 1:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> A rich collection of Free license fulltexts is relevant, not only > >> for our users to pick from (even on a lonely island) and copy into > >> new

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-14 Thread Baptiste BEAUPLAT
On 12/14/19 2:01 PM, Baptiste BEAUPLAT wrote: > On 12/14/19 1:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> A rich collection of Free license fulltexts is relevant, not only for >> our users to pick from (even on a lonely island) and copy into new >> development project, but also as reference e.g. for

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-14 Thread Baptiste BEAUPLAT
On 12/14/19 1:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > A rich collection of Free license fulltexts is relevant, not only for > our users to pick from (even on a lonely island) and copy into new > development project, but also as reference e.g. for testing license > checkers. > > What is _not_ helpful

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Baptiste, Quoting Baptiste BEAUPLAT (2019-12-14 11:55:40) > Yesterday, I was looking for the CC-BY license text to start a new > project. > > I had to dig up to CreativeCommons's github repository to find the > text version. (I didn't want to copy/paste the HTML version on their >

Packaging text licenses

2019-12-14 Thread Baptiste BEAUPLAT
Hi all, Yesterday, I was looking for the CC-BY license text to start a new project. I had to dig up to CreativeCommons's github repository to find the text version. (I didn't want to copy/paste the HTML version on their website). My question to you is: "Would it be interesting for others if I