PackageLicenseTracking
Launchpad Entry: package-license-tracking
Created: RobbieWilliamson
Contributors: LarsWirzenius
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Summary
The OEM team, and others, need to know what licenses each package is under, so that they can summarize this for clients. The debian/copyright file in the package contains this information, but it is currently not in a machine-parseable format. Debian is working on changing the format, and this spec aims at adopting the proposed new format, and helping Debian achieve that. This spec also includes the development of tools to parse the new format.
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MichaelVogt: The content of the debian/copyright file is availalbe on changelogs.ubuntu.com (e.g. http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.7.19ubuntu1/copyright). Not machine readable (or only to a certain extend) but at least not each package needs to be downloaded fully. There is also http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat with a proposal to make debian/copyright machine readable.