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Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"



On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:10:56PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> If the sole purpose of the format is to have a machine-parseable format,
> if it doesn't apply to all packages, then the fact that it is
> machine-parseable is useless, because you won't be able to machine-parse
> all copyright information from all packages.

Let's remove all "should"s from policy, then, since evidently anything that
we don't have 100% compliance with is useless.

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