[Transferred to -devel as suggested. Please follow-up there]. Le Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:40:33PM +0000, Sune Vuorela a écrit : > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat > > It is a too complex, overengineered solution to a very minor issue. > It is not easy readables for humans > It is ugly > Too time consuming to write and check > No real gain.
Hi Sune, Ugliness was already reported earlier by Christoph Berg, and I think that the only reason why his points have not been integrated in the wiki page is because his comments came after a consensus emerged that the page was overloaded and that we would first change the discussion medium before resuming discussions and modifications. I am quite confident that readability can be much improved. See for instance the copyrignt file of the perl packages created with recent versions of dh-make-perl, like the following one: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libfile-find-object-perl_0.2.0-1.html#binary-libfile-find-object-perl-copyright In my opinion, it is already quite nice and readable compared to dh-make's template, that starts by dealing about "debianization" before going to the most important: the main license of the package. Nevertheless, we could probably slim the machine-readable version down to something like: ------------------------ Name: File-Find-Object Maintainer: Olivier Thauvin <shlo...@iglu.org.il> Source: http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Find-Object/ Copyright: © 2009, Olivier Thauvin <shlo...@iglu.org.il> License: Artistic or GPL-1+ License: Artistic This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License, which comes with Perl. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the Artistic License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic' License: GPL-1+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' Files: debian/* Copyright: 2009, Alejandro Garrido Mota <garridom...@gmail.com> License: Artistic or GPL-1+ Format-Specification: Machine-readable copyright declaration version 1 ------------------------ Do not hesitate to make suggestions, there is no doubt the proposal can be impoved ! Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
