Re: debian/copyright, DEP5 and SPDX

2011-12-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Michael Shuler writes: > On 12/13/2011 09:17 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Possibly DEP5-compliant files could be generated from SPDX files. > > This has come up in several DEP5 discussions over the past ~year, as > well as several recent mentions: > > https://www.google.com/search?q=spdx+site%3A

Re: debian/copyright, DEP5 and SPDX

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Shuler
On 12/13/2011 09:17 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Possibly DEP5-compliant files could be generated from SPDX files. This has come up in several DEP5 discussions over the past ~year, as well as several recent mentions: https://www.google.com/search?q=spdx+site%3Alists.debian.org -- Kind regards,

debian/copyright, DEP5 and SPDX

2011-12-13 Thread Simon Josefsson
I just stumbled upon this initiative: http://www.spdx.org/ It is a way to specify the licensing and copyright information (and more) for software packages. There is some overlap between debian/copyright file and especially the DEP5 format. Alas, the SPDX format is XML based, an example for GNU