Frank Lin PIAT <fp...@klabs.be> writes: > As I was updating the copyright file in a package, I wondered if it > would be useful to add an optional header
There is only one header in a DEP-5 copyright file. I think you mean “add an optional field to the Files section”. > (named "Binary-Package" or whatever), to state which binary package is > using that file and license. > The rational is that sooner or later, we will want to use the > machine-interpretable copyright file to validate packages freeness, > license compatibilities and so on. Interesting. So you think a single source package could produce binary packages that are each judged differently for their DFSG status? I wonder what the FTP masters would say to that. (That could read sarcastically; it's not. I'm interested to know.) -- \ “Shepherds … look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece | `\ them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the | _o__) priesthood as I know it.” —Christopher Hitchens, 2008-10-29 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
