[pkg-lua-devel] Bug#670760: lua-zip: debian/copyright should refers to Expat license instead of MIT/X

[Luca Capello]

Hi Enrico!

On Fri, 11 May 2012 16:35:56 +0200, Enrico Tassi wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 09:37:34PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
>> According to [1] and [2], the debian/copyright must list the Expat
>> license [3] and not the MIT/X [4], given that the upstream license [5]
>> is word-by-word identical to the former and not the latter (which adds a
>> clause WRT the former).
>
> You are right in the sense that I should have written Expat (or MIT, not
> MIT/X). The copyright format suggests to write Expat, but the Lua
> community always used MIT(/X), and recently it was clarified that the 
> right naming is MIT (and not MIT/X). 

I understand your concerns, clearly using MIT is better than MIT/X,
given that the former as it is known from the OSI is exactly the same as
the Expat license.

> While I will clearly fix the copyright file, I'm a bit doubtful on using 
> Expat instead of MIT. I see the spec favours the former, but nobody In
> the Lua community would understand that. Of course the license is the
> same, so there is no legal issue here.

This is why I reported it as minor (probably wishlist would have been
better), thank you for considering it.

On Fri, 11 May 2012 17:27:10 +0200, Enrico Tassi wrote:
> What about this:
[...]
> Files: *
> Copyright: 2003-2008 The Kepler project.
> Comment: In the Lua community this license is better known as "MIT".
>   Unfortunately other variants of this license are also known as "MIT".
>   To obtain a machine intepretable copyright file Debian prefers to name this
>   version of the MIT license using the non ambiguous term "Expat".
> License: Expat

Fully agree, added to the lua-ldap's debian/copyright as well:

  <http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/lua-ldap.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c60b4b5fe1e85278a82803eb7b6e44e76874379>

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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