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Re: Parseable copyright files



On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:46:33AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:40:41AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net> wrote:

> > > Copyright: Joe Programmer and Bob Hacker, 1996-1999

> > What if you have as many copyright holders as dosemu?

Then you list them all, just as you do now.  No problem.  :-)

> And another killer of a question I just realised: what would be the
> real benefits of making our useful, easily human-readable copyright
> file machine-readable?

Ah, the heart of the matter.  I was treating this as an intellectual
exercise.  I agree that there doesn't seem much practical point, so I
second the suggestion to drop the idea.

cheers
-- 
Chris Waters   xtifr@dsp.net | I have a truly elegant proof of the
      or    xtifr@debian.org | above, but it is too long to fit into
                             | this .signature file.



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