Sune Vuorela <nos...@vuorela.dk> writes: > After a discussion on #debian-mentors and other places, I will not > sponsor packages using the copyright file format described on > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
For those who weren't present when you were having that IRC discussion, can you point us to archived discussions so that we can see the points raised and discussed? > It is a too complex, overengineered solution to a very minor issue. I find it very surprising that someone can be a Debian developer and consider copyright of works to be “a very minor issue” in Debian. Perhaps I've misinterpreted this statement. What do you mean by that? > It is not easy readables for humans > It is ugly Can you point to a proposal (on another page) for an alternate format that you feel passes these tests? > Too time consuming to write and check I find the structure makes it far easier to write and check than the free-form chaos of many existing files. What would you have removed from the format to reduce the time for writing and checking it? > No real gain. This allows any proposed gains to then be excluded under “not a real gain”, of course [0]. What gains have you seen proposed, that are not real gains by your standard? What *would* be a real gain by your standard? > Discussions about this is welcome, but I think debian-devel is a > better forum for that. Agreed; followup fields set. [0] http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/logic.html#scots -- \ “How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.” | `\ —Emo Philips | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
