On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:03:00AM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Sunday 07 June 2009 22:51:10 Noah Slater wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 10:44:41PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > > > Which implementation could we reasonably expect most people to understand > > > (to include people not knowledgeable with shell escaping)? For example, > > > consider what the two fields may mean to a Windows user. > > To a Windows user? > > Heh, I think this demonstrates the one weakness of your argument. The kind > > of person who would be reading the source format of these files is not your > > average Windows user, nor your average Debian user. > > One of the ultimate goal is to parse this file and present via a GUI. > Oh. I didn't know of such a goal and the DEP draft doesn't mention this. I've > always thought the copyright file was meant to be most readable by people. The DEP draft doesn't mention this because it's not a goal *of* the DEP. I don't think I've ever heard of this intended use case before, and I certainly don't consider it key. I guess this happens to be one of Noah's personal goals. > So ultimately it's going to be expected that people read these copyright files > through a GUI, correct? That sounds like an uninteresting corner case to me. People certainly aren't going to be *writing* them through a GUI, and I think that's at least as relevant. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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