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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