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Re: parsable copyright format 1.0 (jessie release goals)



On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 07:52:25PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:

> > I fought quite hard against the copyright file format but was promised
> > that it wouldn't be something required.

> At least *I* never did such promise.

I certainly did make the point that having a standard, machine-parseable
copyright format available does not imply that it's mandatory to use it.  I
stand by this position, and am opposed to any efforts to make this mandatory
until there is very good tooling for generating these files painlessly that
the project has a high degree of confidence in.

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