What about having control file like format for copyright files? --- copyright --- Packaged-By: Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Packaged-On: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 00:52:10 +0100 Original-Source: ftp://ftp.example.org/upstream-1.0.0.tar.gz Upstream-Authors: Foo <foo -at- example.org> Bar <bar -at- example.org> Copyright: GNU General Public License (file:///usr/share/common-licenses/GPL) This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.
This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. --- copyright --- This format could improove the accuracy of lintian checks (for example, copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl may fail to understand that GPL is only mentioned in the copyright notice, and is not the type of the license); we could also provide some frontend to grep-dctrl to query that file. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][-A-Za-z]*[iy]'?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Infinite loop: see `Loop, infinite'. | something in common: they Loop, infinite: see `Infinite loop'. | don't depend on the language.