Hello Thorsten, On Sat 28 Dec 2019 at 04:14pm +01, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2019, Sean Whitton wrote: >> For packages with simple copyright and licensing, machine readable >> copyright files can take longer to write than a freeform copyright file. > > this discussion started with possible stuff to reduce the time for NEW > reviews. > If I look at dgit, why do I need to read sentences like "This is a dummy > package containing only Debian metadata" in the copyright file? I > also don't have to be told that GPL is comaptible with GPLv3. > During the time I need to read such freeform prose to understand the > copyright situation, I could check several machine-readable files where I > can capture all important information at first view. The main reason I referred to dgit's copyright file in this discussion was because I think the "Contributions are accepted upstream ..." section is useful to include in d/copyright rather than somewhere else in the source package, as then all licensing and copyright information is in one place. I don't think its inclusion there would noticeably slow down NEW review. I agree with you that there is some superfluous information in the other parts of the file. -- Sean Whitton
