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

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:11:54PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > "Francesco Poli (t1000)" <frx at firenze.linux.it> writes:

> > > Hence, it's OK that the license text is quoted in full in the
> > > debian/copyright file, but it's *not* OK that this license is called
> > > "Artistic", since the copyright file format specification
> > > (http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?action=recall&rev=226)
> > > defines "Artistic" as "The original Artistic license, as seen in
> > > /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic".

> > > Please change the misleading label to something more appropriate
> > > (probably "other").

> > Correct, this might be misleading.  However, in the current DEP-5
> > the "as seen in ..." was dropped.

> Ah, I didn't notice this change.

> > I am not sure what is the intention
> > to do in this case.

> 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.

> 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.

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