Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Ximin Luo
On 26/12/12 23:39, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: If experimentations are blocked because the current specification does not allow unspecified types of paragraphs, how about considering to relax it ? I honestly think that License-Exception stanzas already are a fundamental

Re: Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/12/12 12:34, Ximin Luo wrote: Example: | Files: X | Copyright: A | License: BSD-3-Clause | Copyright 2012 A | terms etc I don't think this is the problem: if the first two lines of /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD (Copyright (c)... All rights reserved) were ignored or removed, that

Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:00:33AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Unfortunately that would involve violating the spec. The current specification requires that every paragraph be a header paragraph, a Files paragraph, or a License paragraph. License-Exception paragraphs are not allowed.

Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: Sorry for the confusion between new field and new paragraph. Still, I think that we are spending a lot of time discussing refinements that need to demonstrate their usefulness by being adopted independantly by a broad number of package maintainers. Stepping back a

Bug#649530: [copyright-format] clearer definitions and more consistent License: stanza specification

2012-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Charles Plessy wrote: Sorry for the confusion between new field and new paragraph. Still, I think that we are spending a lot of time discussing refinements that need to demonstrate their usefulness by being adopted independantly by a broad number