On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 04:51:13PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> would it be possible to have a "License" field in the information of a package?
I understand your need, but in this case (as opposed to the others you
mention) I believe a new field is not the right solution. The reason is
that in the general case too many information would need to be encoded
in such a field; that's why a machine interpretable copyright format has
been proposed [1].
To avoid bloating the Sources (see other replies) the only possible way
in between would be to have such a field only for "simple cases" (e.g.
GPL-only packages). But I'm way in favour of no information over partial
information.
Maybe the related question is: once the debian/copyright format is
widespread enough, how can we make such an information available
archive-wide mechanically?
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
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