Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

[Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>]

Le Sunday 22 March 2009 14:45:18 Noah Slater, vous avez écrit :
> > Could you provide a use case or two to help clarify things? The main
> > one I see is for an end user to look at a packages copyright file and
> > say 'yes, I can use it for $foo', which is a case that's detracted from
> > in the proposal.
>
> Listing the licences (not necessarily copyright holders) in a machine
> readable format would allow lintian checks to be developed, and maybe even
> automatic license compatibility checks to be performed.

I find it somehow ironic that you overlook the human trust between developpers 
but would follow automated test done by a machine.



Romain