On 7 June 2011 17:54, James Westby <james.wes...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:29:38 -0500, Kate Stewart <kate.stew...@canonical.com> 
> wrote:
>> This is a format that can go outside the packages (as well as in), so
>> can be used without marshalling the entire Debian community to adopt it.
>> So, am not advocating it be pushed by Linaro engineering for adoption
>> inside Debian packages.  Just be considered for use when describing the
>> licensing and copyrights of what you're providing, rather than come up
>> with yet another version...  ;)
>
> Right. The trigger of this discussion wasn't about describing the
> licensing and copyrights of what we are providing.
>
> Given that I don't think it's going to work for our use case, given that
> we have to specify the license details of every file we are shipping
> (files here will be .deb packages), just in order so say

Perhaps Kate can chime in. I think you just have to specify the
license as a whole.

>   this is based on 03E520A of
>   git://git.linaro.org/jcrigby/linux-linaro-natty.git
>
> I certainly think that it's a good idea to consider it if we do wish to
> describe the licenses of the files we are providing in a
> machine-readable manner.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>

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