Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:18:13PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:23:52PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Other reasons that are ... ? cf. <[🔎] 1244737135.14878.211.camel@shizuru>
>
> I guess various people have various reasons.
>
> Personally, I consider having debian/copyright be machine-parseable to
> be a good thing in general; after all, all the other meta-information is
> already machine-parseable.
>
> The data could be used at packages.qa.d.o or packages.d.o to indicate to
> developers or users what license a package is under without them having
> to download it and/or manually inspect the copyright links (that would
> only be feasable for relatively clear-cut copyright situations, like
> everything being under GPLv2+ e.g.).
>
> The data could also be used by package managers to sort along licenses
> (I wouldn't want to search that way, but maybe some people would like).
>
> Hey, you could even trivially search for packages which are under Joerg
> Schilling's copyright, and purge automatically!
>
> That's some reason I could come up with from the top off my head.
See <[🔎] 1244737135.14878.211.camel@shizuru>.
Moreover, these "reasons" are all pretty pointless if the format is not made
mandatory, which is supposedly not the goal.
Mike
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