Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> Hello, I would like to gather comments about a proposal I have been
> thinking about during the GPLv2/v3 and GPLv2/CDDL discussions. I have
> finally written down what I have in mind here, and refined it with the
> help of many people on IRC:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
Excellent!
Perhaps it would it make sense to use a format which would cover more
use cases than debian/copyright.
Some use cases I have in mind:
- upstream source files embedding this information directly (would ease
creation and maintenance of debian/copyright and result in a better
quality; would also keep the information close to its source)
- use by other distributors, by upstream, or by other tools in general
(freshmeat, online code search or whatever)
- encoding of license tags in binaries (like for kernel modules or like
we have with selinux and security contexts)
I suppose this would be possible by extending the format to allow
embedding in comments such as C/C++/Java etc. comments.
--
Loïc Minier
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