On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Chris Weyl <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * Continue the current auto-guessing / flagging that goes on, but add > a field indicating that the license was auto-determined by a build > tool. If you go down this route, then I suggest we either have to make the requirement of such a field as mandatory as the requirement for the license field or we combine the flag into the actual license field itself (e.g. "perl (specified)" and "perl (derived)") preventing the possibility or ambiguity about the source of the license information. The former has the advantage of being easier to parse, but the latter has the advantage of making it harder for dumb tools to lose the information about specified or derived when presenting this data to the user. Which you choose depends on if you're optimising for clever tools or dumb tools ;-) Mark.
