Hello Steve,
On Tue, Dec 12 2017, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I strongly disagree with this. I think this adds more syntax without
> adding any more information.
>
> The License: field is already very consistently used to contain
> whatever details of the license are required to be shipped with the
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 at 23:54:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 09:27:30AM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > I think the License-Grant field is a useful addition to the format
>
> I strongly disagree with this. I think this adds more syntax without adding
> any more
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 09:27:30AM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I think the License-Grant field is a useful addition to the format,
> resolving some issues around whether License is meant to be the license,
> the license grant or both, and I would like to be able to start using it.
I strongly
Hello Simon,
On Thu, Nov 30 2017, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I assume a normative change to the available fields, and to the
> meaning of License, would make this be copyright format 1.1?
I spoke to Russ about this and I think we want to avoid bumping the
version number unless we make an
I think the License-Grant field is a useful addition to the format,
resolving some issues around whether License is meant to be the license,
the license grant or both, and I would like to be able to start using it.
I assume a normative change to the available fields, and to the meaning
of
On 20-Aug-2017, Sean Whitton wrote:
> - please strip the rewordings that you've made to other parts of the
> document, so this patch addresses this bug alone.
>
> If you want to make those changes, please file separate 'informative'
> bugs against debian-policy; these do not need to be
On Tue, Aug 22 2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 20-Aug-2017, Sean Whitton wrote:
>
>> - note that this bug doesn't apply to policy's HEAD anymore because
>> we've switched to rST
>
> Did you find a conflict? I have pulled the latest HEAD (commit hash
> f0f316c879a7e60e), and the
On 20-Aug-2017, Sean Whitton wrote:
> - note that this bug doesn't apply to policy's HEAD anymore because
> we've switched to rST
Did you find a conflict? I have pulled the latest HEAD (commit hash
f0f316c879a7e60e), and the ‘./copyright-format-1.0.xml’ remains the
only source document of the
Thank you for the new patch, Ben.
Comments:
- please move the License-Grant field to the end of the list of fields
to avoid any renumbering
- please strip the rewordings that you've made to other parts of the
document, so this patch addresses this bug alone.
If you want to make those
On 03-Aug-2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 01-Aug-2017, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > 1) the patch needs to be rebased against current policy
>
> I'll take care of that in a few days.
I have updated my changes by rebasing onto current ‘master’ (commit
hash ‘06f7d27ac0e6aea9’). The patch is attached to
On 01-Aug-2017, Sean Whitton wrote:
> codesearch.debian.net suggests that this field is now used in quite
> a few packages. It seems reasonable to add a description of its use
> to the copyright format.
Thank you for bringing that to this discussion.
> I have some questions about Ben's patch:
>
Hello,
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 01:34:42PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Experiments on new fields are welcome, and it is good to open bugs to track
> them. But I think that we should first see how the proposed field gets
> traction before adding it to the specification.
codesearch.debian.net
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At somewhat related https://bugs.debian.org/786450#8 (bug against
lintian triggered not by License-Grant but License-Reference), Jakub
Wilk argues that Copyright Format 1.0 mandates License _field_ -
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Control: tags -1 + patch
As discussed in the ‘debian-devel’ thread in 2015-05
URL:https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/85lhgjzqy3@benfinney.id.au,
there is value in recording the explicit text from the copyright
holder that *grants* a license to the
Processing control commands:
tags -1 - patch
Bug #786470 [debian-policy] debian-policy: [copyright-format] Add an optional
“License-Grant” field
Removed tag(s) patch.
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786470: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786470
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Control: tags -1 - patch
(the patch tag has a special meaning in the bugs on debian-policy, to indicate
that consensus has been reached and discussion is over).
Le Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:07:45AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
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Severity: wishlist
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