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Bug#1136090: Provision of more license texts

From Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1136090: Provision of more license texts
Date 2026-05-12 09:40 +0200
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Hi,

here some more replies:

Am 11.05.26 um 13:26 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> Hi. Some notes about this.
> 
> I found reference ("canonical") versions for nearly all the new licenses:
> 
> wget -O AGPL-3.0https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/Licenses/agpl-3.0.txt
> wget -O GFDL-1.1https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/Licenses/fdl-1.1.txt
> wget -O CC-BY-3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode.txt
> wget -O CC-BY-SA-3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode.txt
> wget -O CC-BY-4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt
> wget -O CC-BY-SA-4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.txt
> wget -O BSL-1.0https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
> wget -O OFL-1.1https://openfontlicense.org/documents/OFL.txt
> 
> (Some of them differ slightly from the ones in your fork, I guess you
> took some d/copyright file as your source).

I took the license texts from https://spdx.org/licenses/
> 
> The package is meant to be "reproducible from git", so I'll add new
> lines to the file debian/timestamps based on the canonical files.
> 
> License BSL-1.0 is a little bit funny, because the web server returns
> a file with the current date. I will probably use the date of package
> creation (i.e. "dpkg-parsechangelog -SDate") for that one.
> 
> Finally, I've asked the Perl Foundation for a "canonical" txt version
> of Artistic-2.0 and they will probably provide one. In the meantime,
> we managed to fix some formatting glitches in the official version:
> 
> https://perlfoundation.org/artistic-license-20.html
> 
> including the old typo "AS IS' -> "AS IS" which they fixed today.

Thanks for your work on it

Regards

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Mechtilde Stehmann
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Bug#1136090: Provision of more licen texts Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> - 2026-05-09 14:40 +0200
  Bug#1136090: Provision of more licen texts Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2026-05-09 17:40 +0200
    Bug#1136090: Provision of more licen texts Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> - 2026-05-12 09:20 +0200
      Bug#1136090: Provision of more license texts Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2026-05-12 11:10 +0200
      Bug#1136090: Provision of more license texts Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2026-05-12 11:20 +0200
  Bug#1136090: Provision of more license texts Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2026-05-11 13:30 +0200
    Bug#1136090: Provision of more license texts Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org> - 2026-05-12 09:40 +0200

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