Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:10:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: here is the information that I consider submitting to the IANA. Hi Charles, thanks for taking care of this! I'm no expert in the sort of document you're submitting, but to my layman eyes all seem good. Person email address to

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:51:24AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:10:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: here is the information that I consider submitting to the IANA. Person email address to contact for further information: Charles Plessy

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:45:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: - About security, the discussion on debian-devel leads me to think that there is no need to worry. I included a short comment suggesting that field values should be sanitised as usual. Does anybody see other potential

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:41:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I wonder if the contact address shouldn't be something less tied to project individuals, like for instance debian-project@lists.d.o. Given there is already a separation between this and the author field (allowing to give

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I was wondering about the same, but I was worried that having a broad-readership mailing list as a contact point would create confusion about who is expected to answer. How about debian-policy@lists.d.o ? It is anyway the contact point for the

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 09:50:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:45:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: - About security, the discussion on debian-devel leads me to think that there is no need to worry. I included a short comment suggesting that field

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, here is the information that I consider submitting to the IANA. By the way, I realised that the procedure for registration of media types is being updated. Among the changes in this draft, early submission of media types is encouraged, the use of unregistered (x.) prefixes is reduced,

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I have the following questions about my draft (see below). - Is a charset parameter helpful in the cases a program would fall back on text/plain, or is it useless or confusiong as the machine-readable copyright spec already requires files to be

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 08:43:17AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : My personal opinion would be to follow completely SPDX's list in the next revision, but this would require 1) volunteers to submit some items to SPDX's bug tracker for inclusion in their list Hello everybody, the press

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 30 August 2012 01:25:28 Charles Plessy wrote: I am therefore considering to submit to the IANA a new media type, for instance text/vnd.debian.copyright, for the machine-readable copyright files following the format at

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 05:23:10PM +0200, Dominique Dumont a écrit : On Thursday 30 August 2012 01:25:28 Charles Plessy wrote: I am therefore considering to submit to the IANA a new media type, for instance text/vnd.debian.copyright, for the machine-readable copyright files following the

A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I would like to experience myself with the submission of media types to the IANA, but I have no format of mine to propose. However, Debian released this year a standard for machine-readable copyright files, which have been used informally since 2007. There are parsers that exist to

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I would like to experience myself with the submission of media types to the IANA, but I have no format of mine to propose. However, Debian released this year a standard for machine-readable copyright files, which have been used informally since 2007.