Bug#524732: simutrans: license is not Artistic as in common-licenses

Francesco Poli frx at firenze.linux.it
Mon Dec 7 17:15:10 UTC 2009


On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:31:09 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:11:54PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > I think this should be clarified: I am Cc:ing Steve Langasek, the
> > driver of DEP-5.
> 
> Discussions of DEP-5 should take place on the debian-project mailing list;
> the purpose of a driver is to guide discussion and document consensus only.

My intention was not to change DEP-5, but only to get a clarification
on its meaning: hence, I thought the driver could be the right person
to ask to...
Sorry, if I got this wrong somehow...

> 
> > Steve, could you comment on this bug (#524732): what should be put in
> > the debian/copyright when the license is an Artistic one, but not the
> > one in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic ?
> 
> Any short name of your choosing, so long as it does not conflict with those
> specified in the DEP, can be used.  If you wish to propose that a particular
> license have a standard tag in DEP-5, please do so on debian-project.

Thanks for the explanation.

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