Ben Finney wrote:
That is, so that the information can be extracted automatically and
presented by a program in various contexts, rather than having the
*only* way to get at the information be to read the debian/copyright
file in its entirety.
If machine-parsing the copyright file is desired, I suggest someone
draft up some kind of control-field format or similar to aid parsing.
Attempting to machine-extract useful info consistently from copyright
files across the archive at the moment is surely going to be a very
error prone task.
Until this is done, it would seem a bit unfair to impose restrictions on
the way people format the file, such as requiring un-munged email
addresses (or even worse, formally specifying the munging method,
although thankfully nobody has suggested that yet ;))
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Jon Dowland
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