[Debtags-devel] Re: Creating a Debtags 'license' facet

Andrew Suffield asuffield@debian.org
Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:26:53 +0100


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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:22:59PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:17:42PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:06:48PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > > You've got a problem with this one, because licenses can be combined
> > > conjunctively and disjunctively. So a package might be both entirely
> > > under foo and entirely under bar (foo || bar), or it might be
> > > partially under foo and partially under bar (foo && bar).
> >=20
> > If that is the only problem, a package can be tagged with more than one
> > tag even from the same facet, which would be good enough to categorise
> > your two examples.
>=20
> Imagine a package that can be distributed if you meet the terms of:
>=20

Uhh, unclear, this should be read as:

EITHER

>  - the GPL

OR

>  - both the MIT license and the 4-clause BSD license, simultaneously

OR

>  - both the MIT license and the Artistic license, simultaneously

--=20
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