On la, 2010-08-21 at 16:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ideally, I'd like to just copy and paste upstream's copyright statements > into debian/copyright and maybe do some compaction, which leads me to > prefer a free-form field. Do we think that people are going to want to > parse and extract individual copyright holders for some reason? If so, we > would need to standardize the format quite a bit, and I'm not sure it's > worth it.
If it was easy, I might be interested in analyzing the years indicated for copyrights, so I could write a little tool to notify me when things fall out of copyright. Oh, wait, I was living in a fantasy world for a while, one in which copyrights actually expire. Now that I'm awake, I'm happy to keep it free-form, at least for now. If it turns out to be useful later, we can specify a more strict format. (I will now go live in another fantasy world, one in which there is a markup language for copyright statements and licenses which upstreams regularly use.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282434506.12989.367.ca...@havelock