On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:47:39PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Sunday 22 March 2009 14:45:18 Noah Slater, vous avez écrit : > > > 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. > > I find it somehow ironic that you overlook the human trust between developpers > but would follow automated test done by a machine.
Please don't put words into my mouth. I never said I overlooked anything, only that it might be nice to augment things. -- 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
