ignoring autotool in debian/copyright?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 11-12-01 at 12:13am, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 00:16, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> > On 11-11-21 at 11:25am, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> >> On 2011-11-21 03:26, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> >> > Looks like there is a strange thing with the install-sh section 
> >> > in debian/copyright. The license name contains spaces, and 
> >> > doesn't match any License: paragraph.
> >
> > I guess what you find strange is license names of this form:
> >
> > License: GPL-2+ with Libtool exception
> >
> > That, I believe, is perfectly correct according to (latest drafts 
> > of) DEP-5.  Please elaborate what you find strange about it.
> 
> I do not know what is the current status of DEP5. What I found strange 
> was the use of spaces (which are otherwise used as separator) in the 
> license name.

If you mean the spaces in above example, then it is IMO pretty clearly 
documented at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#license-specification


 - Jonas

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