Bug#828218: libsoftware-license-perl in Debian has become fork of upstream code

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Dominique Dumont (2017-01-08 12:30:38)
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 14:04:31 +0530 Vasudev Kamath <vasudev at copyninja.info> 
> wrote:
> > This library is patched not to adopt to Debian environment but to
> > change its behavior to suite Debian better.
> 
> I somewhat disagree. The fundamental behavior has not changed. Some features 
> are added because debian handles license somewhat diffrently:
> - usage of summary to point to /usr/share/common/licenses
> - usage of code word (like GPL-2+) when user is given a choice of license 
> version
> - usage of Expat keyword instead of MIT license
> 
> You're free not to use debian specific parts.

For the record: As a direct consequence of this bug, licensecheck 
testsuite now ignores some failures that occur only when using the 
Debian fork.

I would prefer if you would acknowledge that you are doing a fork, by 
releasing the differently behaving project under a separate name, so 
that others can freely choose (by (build-)dependency) which to use.


 - Jonas

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