I just stumbled upon this initiative: http://www.spdx.org/
It is a way to specify the licensing and copyright information (and more) for software packages. There is some overlap between debian/copyright file and especially the DEP5 format. Alas, the SPDX format is XML based, an example for GNU CoreUtils is available here (but it seems to be buggy, it should use 'GPL-3.0+' instead of 'GPL-3.0'): http://www.spdx.org/system/files/coreutils.rdf_.xml Adopting something like this for an entire distribution might be useful but will require a lot of work. Maybe the debian/copyright files could be permitted to reference another file shipped with the package that contains the complete information? Possibly DEP5-compliant files could be generated from SPDX files. I don't have any question or suggestion what to do with this, but I thought some people here might find it interesting. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877h207b7m....@latte.josefsson.org
