Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions?

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Sat 28 Dec 2019 at 10:46am -05, Scott Kitterman wrote:

> The same information could be included in the machine readable format as
> comments.  It's not the format per se that helps, it's how the maintainer
> organizes the information.
>
> Also, personally, I find understanding what debian/copyright says is a trivial
> effort compared to understanding what copyright/licenses actually apply to the
> package.

I agree with your general points, here, but for very complicated
packages with a lot of different licenses, the machine-readable format
can be easier to work with.

-- 
Sean Whitton