  Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files  On Wed, 25
Mar 2009 15:44:20 +1100 Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
>Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> writes: >> On Wed, 25
Mar 2009 13:22:04 +1100 Ben Finney  >> wrote: >> ... >> >Those
who don't like the very *idea* of a machine-parseable format >>
>for .debian/copyright ? apparently exist, but I don't
understand >> >their position yet :-) >> I'd be one of those.
>Thank you for your explanation; after reading it, I would not
actually >classify your position as stated above :-) >> Whenever
you add new structural rules on a file it creates more >> things
one needs to know, more things to get wrong, and more work. >>
This is inevitable. >> To counter this, I see some very minor
potential benefit. IANADD, so >> I don't get a vote, but if I
did, I'd be against it. >Okay, so it's not that you're against
having a machine-parseable >format for the file, but that you
don't yet see that the benefit >outweighs the cost.  Yes.  I'm
against adding require