Re: debian/copyright machine-interpretable: how about the patches in the diff.gz ?

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> writes:

>  - One drawback of the greedy approach for organising the Files fields
>    is that the most important copyright - the one of the programs which
>    gives to the package its raison d'être - will never be at the top of
>    the list.

For many packages, there is no single "copyright of the programs",
because there are multiple copyright holders, each one with copyright
in parts of the source tree. There may even be multiple licenses.

It's good, then, that this proposal doesn't extend
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Ben Finney
 the illusion of
"the one true copyright of the programs".