Le Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 05:23:10PM +0200, Dominique Dumont a écrit : > On Thursday 30 August 2012 01:25:28 Charles Plessy wrote: > > I am therefore considering to submit to the IANA a new media type, for > > instance text/vnd.debian.copyright, for the machine-readable copyright > > files following the format at > > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/. > > > > What do you think ? > > Linux foundation is working on a standard named SPDX [1] which provides > similar information (and a lot others). > > May be you should check with them before pushing dep-5 to an official > organisation.
Hi Dominique, thanks for the comment. I am well aware of SPDX and we mention it in the machine-readable debian/copyright specification, in the section on license short names. We took care that there is a maximal compatibility between our lists. My personal opinion would be to follow completely SPDX's list in the next revision, but this would require 1) volunteers to submit some items to SPDX's bug tracker for inclusion in their list, and 2) resolve the case of the "Expat" license that is (rightly, in my opinion) called "MIT" in SPDX. More importantly, the two projects have different scopes. SPDX documents each file and the Debian policy lets the user document groups of files that have the same license. Also, SPDX supports various formats but not the Debian control data format, and our machine-readable format supports only this one. As you know well, the approach is rather to generate machine-readable debian/copyright files from SPDX files. See for instance the following blueprint at Ubuntu. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-spdx-gen Altogether, I think that Debian is likely to serve machine-readable debian/copyright files for at least a couple of releases, so a registered media type would not be a waste. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120903234317.ga15...@falafel.plessy.net
