On Sunday, December 29, 2019 9:56:00 AM EST Sean Whitton wrote: > 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. I agree with that, but I don't think the advantage is sufficient that we should burden contributors with making it a requirement. Scott K
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