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Bug#771750: [lintian] rename dep5-copyright tags to copyright-1.0



On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 10:22:23 -0500, Chris Knadle wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:15:16AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > And "copyright 1.0" doesn't seem more clear to me at all. If
> > anything, we should do s/dep5-copyright/machine-readable-copyright/.
> machine-readable-copyright seems clearer to me too.

For my personal taste, machine-readable was and is a mis-nomer.
In my personal experience I find CF 1.0 much more _human_-readable as
well than any unstructured prose in d/copyright.

My personal favourite would be something like "structured copyright
format".


Cheers,
gregor

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