Hi, currently, DEP5 is not, contrary to what the name says, about a “machine-readable debian/copyright”. It is about providing a much broader amount of licensing information on our source packages.
The real problem with DEP5 is not the format (which is not worse for a small package than the current one), it is with the unrealistic amount of information that it requires to fill and maintain. So, how about dropping entirely anything that’s related to files and only keep the amount of information we are requiring now? I feel sorry for the giant bikeshedding thread about spaces and commas, but it is not getting us anywhere. Source: foo Authors: John Doe Jane Toe # Some comment Copyright: © 2008 John Doe © 2009 Initrode, Inc. # Actually I don’t think we should include detailed copyright # information, but that’s another story. License: GPL-2+ License blurb. Some comments about the GPL applying to the binaries, the libraries being MPL. License: MPL MPL text. It doesn’t look like too much work to switch an existing file to this format, it could even be partly automated. It is still human-readable. It could reasonably be made mandatory after some time. It brings grossly the same advantages as the current DEP5 proposal. It doesn’t cause any problems with commas, spaces or other characters that can appear in filenames. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling
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