Le Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:32:20PM +0000, MJ Ray a écrit : > Stefano Zacchiroli <lea...@debian.org> wrote: > > > I didn't want to imply that we should change anything of that. We > > should rather consolidate the work they do and index licenses, > > decisions, and rationales for such decisions in a central place that > > people can look at. > > I think there have been at least three attempts to index them in the > past, but few seemed to care about them and so they gradually bitrot. > Even the DFSGLicenses wiki page was last edited 2012-08-16 and now > appears to be immutable. > > Who wants this index? Who's willing to put the time in? I'd be happy > to help, although I won't lead another attempt.
Hello everybody, I would be interested to contribute, but on the other hand, I do not thing that it is possible to do serious work if the decision makers, the FTP team, do not have enough time to explain precisely their decisions. For instance, I am not able to understand by myself what in Creative Commons 2.5 changed to make it acceptable for Debian, and I have not found this information in public documents. In the absence of (and even in parallel with) a curated list of Free and non-Free licenses, I think that general statistics of what license are seen in the main and non-free components of our archive would have value, without requiring commitment from the FTP team. There are now 1,387 Debian copyright files declaring a 1.0 machine-readable format in the collab-qa/packages-metadata repository on svn.debian.org (see http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata for details). This repository is not perfect, but I think it can be a good start for people who do not have access to lintian.debian.org. Any volunteers ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20130107223519.gb3...@falafel.plessy.net