Quoting Sean Whitton (2019-12-29 15:52:57) > 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 that it is sensible to include contribution notice in copyright file. I don't follow, however, what makes such notice longer to write (or lesser readable, or whichever other reason) in machine-readable format - e.g. in a Comment field for the top section. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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