Re: Parseable copyright files

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

I would be nice to have a parsable Author field such that our
package web pages could list upstream authors (perhaps with a
name and no email if the author doesn't want to get too much
emails too easily).

But such a text field probably belongs in the control file, not
the copyright file.

Peter


Chris Waters wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:46:33AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > 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.