I would be nice to have a parsable Author field such that our package web pages could list upstream authors (perhaps with a name and no email if the author doesn't want to get too much emails too easily).
But such a text field probably belongs in the control file, not the copyright file. Peter Chris Waters wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:46:33AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > And another killer of a question I just realised: what would be the > > real benefits of making our useful, easily human-readable copyright > > file machine-readable? > > Ah, the heart of the matter. I was treating this as an intellectual > exercise. I agree that there doesn't seem much practical point, so I > second the suggestion to drop the idea.