On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 11:11 AM Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > > > SPDX defines an xml format only. They lost before they'd even started. > > debian/copyright is supposed to be human-readable first and foremost. XML > need not apply.
Not true. From [1]: > Shall be in a human readable form. > [...] > Multiple serialization formats may be used to represent the information being > exchanged. Current supported formats include: > [...] > tag:value flat text file as described in this specification It's the same format that REUSE [2] uses. It is very much human readable, or at least as human readable as DEP5 (I don't think any human will ever read a DEP5 file with 200 lines of CC-BY-4.0 but that's besides the point). Cheers, Stephan [1]: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/conformance/#44-standard-data-format-requirements [2]: https://reuse.software/
