DEP 5 is a DEP currently in DRAFT stage.
It is being developed within the DEP process:
http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5
The files can be accessed from the Bazaar version control branch:
$ bzr checkout http://bzr.debian.org/dep/dep5/trunk/ dep5.trunk/
The files can also be browsed through a web interface.
Archived discussion
Prior to 2009-03-25, the proposal was being developed on this wiki-page. Discussions that were ongoing on this wiki from that point in time archived at Proposals/CopyrightFormat/Archive.
Open topics for DEP-5
The DEP-5 drivers use this wiki page to manage the "to do" list for it. Please don't edit it in a way that will confuse them. This page is public in the interest of transparency. If you have opinions or suggestions or patches, please bring them up on the debian-project mailing list. Thanks.
Success criteria for DEP-5:
- people no longer find things to argue about on an ongoing basis
Specific fields that need to be discussed (preferably one at a time on debian-project):
- add a "Comment:" field? (there seems to be rough consensus)
- rename "Maintainer:" to something else? (discussion ongoing, some controversy)
- rename "Name:" to "Upstream-Name:" (discussion ongoing)
- drop "Name:" and "Maintainer:" (discussion ongoing)
Other problems that need to be addressed:
- globbing syntax in the "Files:" section: what syntax? should there be exception?
- make sure convertability between DEP-5 and SPDX files is possible
- license shortnames need to be kept compatible with Fedora, SPDX, and other relevant projects (Steve is liasing with them via SPDX)
- the meaning of "public domain" as a license may need clarification
- specify compilation copyright using copyright/license fields in the first section (the non-Files one)? (rough consensus, implementation postponed until other things are dealt with)
- general syntax of the file: follow policy 5.1 or be different? (consensus seems to be 5.1)
- additional licenses (Charles suggested some), or minimize list and refer to what SPDX produces instead (Lars suggested this)
- eliminate mention of YAML; there should be only one syntax for DEP-5
- telling people to use 'other' as a license keyword prevents being able to make unambiguous references between stanzas
- 'Files: *' should not be implicit; this is a diversion from the wiki draft that was made without public discussion
Things that might be good to have at some point, outside of the spec text:
- lintian warning for malformed DEP-5 files
- lintian info level message for non-DEP-5 files
- something to track DEP-5 adoption (perhaps by counting the non-DEP-5 lintian tag on lintian.debian.org?)