On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 04:51:13PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a > package?
I understand your need, but in this case (as opposed to the others you mention) I believe a new field is not the right solution. The reason is that in the general case too many information would need to be encoded in such a field; that's why a machine interpretable copyright format has been proposed [1]. To avoid bloating the Sources (see other replies) the only possible way in between would be to have such a field only for "simple cases" (e.g. GPL-only packages). But I'm way in favour of no information over partial information. Maybe the related question is: once the debian/copyright format is widespread enough, how can we make such an information available archive-wide mechanically? [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time
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