gul-cpp / gul14

General Utility Library for C++14
https://gul14.info/
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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deb: Some copyright improvements #71

Closed Finii closed 9 months ago

Finii commented 9 months ago

[why] The license identifiers are not always the standard SPDX form.

See:

Finii commented 9 months ago

Btw, I have no clue what we need to put into out LICENSE file.

alt-graph commented 9 months ago

When I look at https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-specification , I'd think that the names in the table are the preferred ones? And below the table, it specifically states

There are many versions of the MIT license. Please use Expat instead, when it matches.

So I thought that would have been OK? But you are much deeper in Debian packages than I am... :shrug:

Finii commented 9 months ago

Hmm, to be honest: I don't know.

The use Expat notice is there from the beginning, i.e. since 2012. There was some confusion what MIT would mean. I always use the SPDX specifier only, for example also CC0-1.0 instead of CC0.

Probably you are right.