On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > * I don't think bibliographic references to upstream (or papers > describing them) belong in debian/copyright, unless the upstream > copyright requires them to be there.
thanks for actually confirming the need ;) and that is what we are trying often to talk upstream against -- from coming up with custom home-brewed licenses obligating users to cite... often those are non-DFSG-free. If I tell them: "please release under DFSG-free license, and I will make the reference conveniently available along with the license", they might take a bite. > * Inventing new fields for entirely new things this late in the > DEP5 process is a bit unfortunate. I would like to see DEP5 my email was more of "should I drop X-" from References* field, per your preceeding discussion on the list that finally we do not need X- for non-standard fields. I was not trying to persuade you to alter DEP5 ;-) please push it out > Sorry to be so negative on your proposal. A generic > upstream-meatdata.yaml sounds to me like the best solution for sorts of > things. Some day in the future I would like too see as much > non-copyright information as possible moved out from debian/copyright to > upstream-metadata.yaml, but that, too, will be a separate discussion. I am still digesting upstream-metadata.yaml ;-) -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
