Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ti, 2011-01-18 at 08:00 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I am hoping that given SPDX is advancing towards beta release, they will fill these pages in a not too long time. But in the meantime, we could add a link to their license table, if necessary: diff --git a/dep5.mdwn b/dep5.mdwn index

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:09:09PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : I think I agree with your proposal to link to SPDX. Alternatively, we could collect the licenses as attachments to the spec, or point at the ones on the OSI site. I'd rather avoid attaching things, but otherwise

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:31:38PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : It seems to me that the third patch has been applied by now, although the referenced SPDX web pages for BSD licenses are empty. Was that deliberate? I feel that it makes the current draft not appropriate for widespread

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 08:00:27AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:31:38PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : It seems to me that the third patch has been applied by now, although the referenced SPDX web pages for BSD licenses are empty. Was that deliberate? I feel

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Applied all three patches, thanks. On to, 2011-01-13 at 09:53 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:09:09PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : I think I agree with your proposal to link to SPDX. Alternatively, we could collect the licenses as attachments to the spec, or

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:53:55AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I just realised that the SPDX site is not yet ready as their license links point to empty pages: http://spdx.org/licenses/ I attached three patches. The first removes the FreeBSD license, the second adds missing links to upstream

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2011-01-10 at 19:24 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: 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

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:09:09PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : I think I agree with your proposal to link to SPDX. Alternatively, we could collect the licenses as attachments to the spec, or point at the ones on the OSI site. I'd rather avoid attaching things, but otherwise I'm fine with

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
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

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-10 Thread Charles Plessy
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

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2011-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Lars, On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:49:02PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: All of the below is now done, I've today done the final bits by splitting BSD into BSD-[234]-clause and renaming some licenses to match the names in SPDX. Reading over the present contents of

Re: DEP5: ready for CANDIDATE?

2010-12-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
All of the below is now done, I've today done the final bits by splitting BSD into BSD-[234]-clause and renaming some licenses to match the names in SPDX. As far as I know, these were the final changes that were needed. Does anyone object if I change the status of DEP5 to CANDIDATE, and push the