> > What about copyright.Debian, or copyright.DFSG ? > > That would be misleading I think. > > Why not add it to the copyright filer proper? > > > Michael
I think it would be better to keep what is essentially a Debian opinion on the copyright in a separate file, for two reasons 1) ease of machine parsing - we can define a format - which might contain a version etc. Being in a separate file means we do not have to worry about the upstream user having lines in their copyright file which look like our tags. 2) to make it easy to distinguish the words of the original author from the Debian commentary, For example the upstream author might include the text This may be freely distributed by the Debian project in their licence, and it would be better to have the commentary in a separate file to make it clear that this is the words of the upstream author, and thus in non-free under DFSG 8, and not a commentary by the developer packaging it, indicating that it is suitable for main. John
