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



Hello,

On Sun 29 Dec 2019 at 10:09am -05, Scott Kitterman wrote:

> 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.

I agree with this too.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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