Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 05:54:42PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:33:45PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:30:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Read the first line again.
>
> The first line ignores every other reason given by the people wanting DEP 5.
Other reasons that are ... ? cf. <[🔎] 1244737135.14878.211.camel@shizuru>
Mike
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