Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> writes: > DEP-5 is nice, but how can I specify a license for a file with white > spaces? For example you want to specify that the file "foo/file one.bar" > is licensed under ISC, but "foo/file_one.bar" is licensed under GPL. How > can you do that?
No, that distinction isn't representable. There was some earlier discussion about that, and the conclusion reached was that it was a rare case that wasn't worth making the syntax more complicated (after various more complicated syntaxes were tossed around without making anyone very happy). The general way to specify information for a file name that contains whitespace is to use wildcards to match the whitespace, which means that you can't disambiguate from other files that only differ in the places where whitespace is present. Out of curiosity, have you run across a case where this matters, or were you asking because it's a theoretical hole? It's definitely a theoretical hole, but one of the reasons why we didn't spend more time on it was that everyone was dubious that the case would arise in a real-world situation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/8762fq2o2u....@windlord.stanford.edu
