Minor wording changes;

Add list and web search instructions;
Add link to REJECT-FAQ;
Add unmodified BSD to list explicitly after Message-ID: <20090226161423.GA27538@localhost.pp.htv.fi>;
Remove obsolete links to draft FDL position statement and CC working group.

CVS version numbers

english/legal/licenses/index.wml: 1.14 -> 1.15

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/english/legal/licenses/index.wml b/english/legal/licenses/index.wml
index 35d4245ad51..e8777899dc1 100644
--- a/english/legal/licenses/index.wml
+++ b/english/legal/licenses/index.wml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <define-tag pagetitle>License information</define-tag>
 #use wml::debian::template title="<pagetitle>" GEN_TIME="yes"
 
-<p>This site presents the opinion of debian-legal contributors on how
+<p>This page presents the opinion of some debian-legal contributors on how
 certain licenses follow the
 <a href="$(HOME)/social_contract#guidelines">Debian Free Software
 Guidelines</a> (DFSG).  Most of these opinions were formed in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ debian-legal mailing list</a> in response to questions from
 potential package maintainers or licensors.  We welcome
 enquiries from maintainers considering particular licenses, but
 we encourage most maintainers to use one of the common licenses:
-GPL, LGPL, BSD, or Artistic.</p>
+GPL, LGPL, modified BSD, or Artistic.</p>
 
 <p>Software packaged for Debian is normally classified into one of four
 categories.  There is free software (main), non-free software
@@ -21,14 +21,28 @@ software (contrib) and software which cannot be redistributed
 explains exactly how the DFSG
 are applied to the archive.  If in doubt, maintainers are
 asked to email debian-legal about licenses, including the text
-of any new license into the body of the email.</p>
+of any new license into the body of the email.
+You may find it helpful to
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/search.html">search the list archives</a>
+for the name of the license before emailing lists with questions
+about it.  If you still email questions, please link to some of
+the previous relevant discussions.</p>
 
 <p>debian-legal is advisory. The actual decision-makers are the
 ftpmasters and the package maintainers.  However, if one cannot
 convince most of the generally liberal debian-legal contributors,
 it's probably not clear that the software follows the DFSG.</p>
 
-<p>Lists are maintained by the
+<p>Because the actual decision-makers are the
+ftpmasters and the package maintainers, it is a very good idea
+to check
+<a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html">the ftpmasters REJECT FAQ</a>
+and search site:packages.debian.org for any license that you doubt,
+to look for other examples of its handling for debian.
+(The search works because package copyright files are published on
+packages.debian.org as plain text.)</p>
+
+<p>Other lists are maintained by the
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html">Free Software
 Foundation</a> (FSF) and the
 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html">Open Source
@@ -66,6 +80,10 @@ about these summaries.</p>
 <li><a href="http://www.cups.org/book/examples/LICENSE.txt">Common UNIX Printing System License Agreement</a></li>
 <li>vhf Public License</li>
 <li><a href="http://tunes.org/legalese/bugroff.html">"No problem Bugroff" license</a></li>
+<li>Unmodified BSD License (also known as the
+original or 4-clause BSD license.
+It included an advertising requirement and is now deprecated even
+by the BSD project.)</li>
 <li>public domain (not a license, strictly speaking)</li>
 </ul>
 
@@ -111,15 +129,3 @@ has no licence at all), even in non-free.</p>
 that answers some common questions about the DFSG and how to analyse
 software.</p>
 
-<p>Manoj Srivastava has drafted
-<a href="http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement">a
-position statement about the FDL</a>
-which is yet to be voted upon.</p>
-
-<p>Evan Prodromu has been delegated to work with Creative Commons
-to resolve DFSG-related problems with some of their licenses, as
-<a href="http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary">summarised
-on Evan's page</a> and
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/04/msg00031.html">reported
-on debian-legal</a>.</p>
-