Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 06:37:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:53:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I don't think this is a good idea. This license is extremely short, > >> and it has a ton of minor variations, so

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

Simon McVittie writes: > It would be great if Policy described what the ftp-masters actually > require and why, so that maintainers could provide everything that Debian > needs to avoid legal trouble but no more. At the moment, Policy is rather > more vague than the actual

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

Josh Triplett writes: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:53:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I don't think this is a good idea. This license is extremely short, >> and it has a ton of minor variations, so we'll get a lot of people >> using it even though the exactly licensing

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 05:10:52PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 at 21:00:12 -1000, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those > > packages need to include it in their copyright files. > > Although Policy does not say so,

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:53:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > > Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those > > packages need to include it in their copyright files. I'd love to see > > this license added to

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

Josh Triplett writes: > Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those > packages need to include it in their copyright files. I'd love to see > this license added to /usr/share/common-licenses/ ; this would require a > Policy change to section

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 at 21:00:12 -1000, Josh Triplett wrote: > Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those > packages need to include it in their copyright files. Although Policy does not say so, the ftp-masters require the license grant to be quoted in the copyright