On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:52:36AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > currently, DEP5 is not, contrary to what the name says, about a > “machine-readable debian/copyright”. It is about providing a much > broader amount of licensing information on our source packages. > > The real problem with DEP5 is not the format (which is not worse for a > small package than the current one), it is with the unrealistic amount > of information that it requires to fill and maintain. > > > So, how about dropping entirely anything that’s related to files and > only keep the amount of information we are requiring now? I feel sorry > for the giant bikeshedding thread about spaces and commas, but it is not > getting us anywhere.
I agree with this "let's get real". I would even go further: The focus should be less on making it easier for machines to read debian/copyright and more on machines generating a human-readable debian/copyright. The program "licensecheck" in package "devscripts" is a good start to find licenses. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
