Hello, On Sat 28 Dec 2019 at 11:31am +01, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I ceertainly agree that our copyright files should be machine-readable > in _addition_ to being human-readable, not instead. > > I believe our current machine-readable format is expressive enough to > also be decently human-readable. > > Please help challenge me on that: Provide me examples of packages > considered unsuitable for use with our machine-readable format because > that would make them too human-unreadable. I would like to have a > closer look at such cases. It's not usually that they are unreadable, but that they are less readable. I'm afraid I don't have examples to hand. For packages with simple copyright and licensing, machine readable copyright files can take longer to write than a freeform copyright file. For packages with simple copyright and licensing, there are useful things you can do with a freeform copyright file which you can't do with a machine-readable file. See for example the contribution information in the copyright files of src:dgit and src:mailscripts. -- Sean Whitton
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