ClearlyDefined: Putting license information in one place

Debian cares a lot about knowing that everything we distribute in the main archive complies with DFSG, but achieving that is almost completely manual. Members of the FTP team look at every file in every new source package, and confirm that the Debian copyright file takes account of all licenses and copyright holders. There are tools to automatically generate these Debian copyright files, but TTBOMK none of them are comprehensive. There just too much variation in the free software that gets uploaded to Debian.

It's nice to see that people are thinking about how we might save volunteer time in this area, though integrating Debian's processes with something like ClearlyDefined is a very long way off!