On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:42:29AM +0000, Neil McGovern wrote: > I'm not quite clear as to why this is an advantage yet Currently, this > seems to have been designed to provide interfaces for future tools to > use, while not regarding whether or not people want those tools. > > Could you provide a use case or two to help clarify things? The main > one I see is for an end user to look at a packages copyright file and > say 'yes, I can use it for $foo', which is a case that's detracted from > in the proposal.
Listing the licences (not necessarily copyright holders) in a machine readable format would allow lintian checks to be developed, and maybe even automatic license compatibility checks to be performed. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
