On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:10:00AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Ditto; leaving it in copyright also makes it easy to remember to change
> > it if the license becomes more free in the future: you're just editing the
> > one file.
> > Cheers, aj
>
> I think it could be interesting if this part of the file could be
> parsed. I think apt or any other package-tool would be interested in
> explaining to the user why the license of package A is non-free. May be
> a line:
You're not the only one to have suggested a parseable copyright file.
Does anyone have any suggestions of the nature of such a file?
I would suggest a file with fields like the control files, something
like (comments with #'s):
Package: foo
Debianized-By: Debian Maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Debianized-When: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:09:09 +0100 # output of 822-date
Copyright: GPL
Other-Info: # Like the `Description' field in debian/control; any
# appropriate info can be placed in this field
Now if the copyright is other than one of the standard ones, we could
have:
Copyright: DFSG
Copyright-Details: # field with copy of copyright
or something like
Copyright: non-DFSG
Copyright-non-freeness: # Brief details of non-freeness here
Copyright-Details: # field with copy of copyright
Comments?
Julian
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