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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: debian/copyright format and SPDX
From:       Stephan Lachnit <stephanlachnit () debian ! org>
Date:       2023-09-22 10:58:10
Message-ID: CAKZYK4_Zoz7i_T9peDZLGyWybZO9pjvpeN=JHAORRC8teJOeyg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 11:11 AM Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> SPDX defines an xml format only.  They lost before they'd even started.
> 
> debian/copyright is supposed to be human-readable first and foremost.  XML
> need not apply.

Not true. From [1]:

> Shall be in a human readable form.
> [...]
> Multiple serialization formats may be used to represent the information being \
> exchanged. Current supported formats include: [...]
> tag:value flat text file as described in this specification

It's the same format that REUSE [2] uses. It is very much human
readable, or at least as human readable as DEP5 (I don't think any
human will ever read a DEP5 file with 200 lines of CC-BY-4.0 but
that's besides the point).

Cheers,
Stephan

[1]: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/conformance/#44-standard-data-format-requirements
 [2]: https://reuse.software/


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