Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> Can you provide a more precise pointer to this feature? Given that
> the early revisions were done by wiki, I'm finding it non-trivial to
> locate a specification for this. I see earlier revisions that seem to
> include free-form text in the examples, but nothing that specifies how
> this is meant to be parsed.
I think you have to go back most of the way to Sam's original proposal.
See, for instance:
http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?action=recall&rev=27
| Also, it is important to allow any form of free text in the file, be
| it before or after the machine-interpretable part. I therefore suggest
| that fields can be interspread anywhere in the file. Lines that do not
| start with a known field name or that do not start with a space and
| follow a valid line should be ignored by an interpreter.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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