On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > [2016-08-11 21:09] Moritz Mühlenhoff >> >> Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> schrieb: >> > In particular, if this thread comes to the conclusion that more needs to >> > be done than what maintainers currently do, then it should be something >> > actionable; >> >> Or we could rather automate the generation of debian/copyright entirely >> by letting fossology detect all the copyright holders and license holders >> at upload time. That would even provide up-to-date copyright files since >> effectively 95% of all debian/copyright files are written once for the >> initial upload and then never touched again.
I don't think it will ever be feasible to completely automate license detection. Especially since there are packages where the only free license is specified in debian/copyright. > $ apt-cache search fossology > [nothing] > > What I miss? Kate Stewart is working on bringing the packaging up to scratch so that it can enter Debian again: https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/100/ http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/debconf16/contrib/Fossology.webm -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
