[Licenses-discuss] Thought on steps

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Osamu Aoki wrote:
...
> There are few actions which results need to be recorded as data in the
> source package:
> 
>    1) extract and match copyright/license to generate a
>       machine generated copyright summary. (No *: data-1)
>    2) record human=maintainer judgment. (No *: data-2)
>    3) reduce data-2 to DEP-5.  (Allow *: data-3)
> 
> As for the process-1, this is automatic.
> As for the process-2, this is manual and need to record who did this.
>   (But machine can provide initial template using previous history)
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^
> As for the process-3, this maybe done either by script or manually.

As for the actual file names to use:
data-1: debian/copyright.scan
data-2: debian/copyright.proofed
data-3: debian/copyright

As for the stanza entry for debian/copyright.scan, its first 3 lines
added should be something like:

----x8
SCAN_TOOL: <pkg> <version>
 XXX_FIXME_XXX

----x8

Here, <pkg> is like debmake licensecheck dcopy ...

Osamu