[Debian-med-packaging] [med-svn] r14207 - trunk/packages/microbiomeutil/trunk/debian

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Charles,

I was basically following the advise given in

   http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2013-July/021009.html

regarding the license name?  (I noticed that you also do not agree with
droping the images - but that's a different topic I'll answer
separately.)

I admit that I personally did not dived into the very details of the
BSDish licenses and simply took Luka's hint as a quite easy to follow
thing.  Do you think I should revert the change, turn it into
"BSD-3-clause-like" or just leave it as is.

Kind regards

     Andreas.


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 06:50:46PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 08:41:06AM +0000, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> >  
> >  Files: *
> >  Copyright: © 2009-2010 The Broad Institute <http://www.broadinstitute.org>
> > -License: BSD-like
> > +License: BSD-3-clause
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> I think that "BSD-3-clause" is misleading, because it is not a verbatim copy of
> /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD.  This is exactly the reason why the Policy has
> been changed to stop recommending pointing to this file.
> 
> A lot of packages using the machine-readable format are using short names such
> as "BSD-3-clause-like" to indicate this fact, and it never has been a problem.
> As the package's maintainer, feel free to use the short name you like, but in
> any case please be sure that there is nothing wrong with "BSD-like".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
> 

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