On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:29:38 -0500, Kate Stewart kate.stewart@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
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