Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2014, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: >> > The Perl script (attached) took a few hours to write - there's a >> > brick of about 60 lines to munge file moves. Then about another >> > hour to inspect all that output, plus poking at each file to make >> > sure that the license change actually occured. >> >> Thank you a lot, this really helps. I'll integrate your changes over >> the next few days after some further local testing. > > I'm glad that this got sorted out but I wanted to point out that > you are actually too demanding of yourself in terms of what to put in > debian/copyright. > > You don't have to document the copyright holders of each and every > file. What truly matters is to properly distinguish the different > licenses and the files concerned by each license. > > Listing of copyright holders doesn't have to be exhaustive (it's > impossible for big projects) and it's perfectly acceptable to group > them for a set of files that share a common license. See how the linux > packages uses: > > Files: * > Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others > License: GPL-2
Thanks Raphael, I was wondering about this.
Looks like Jouni Malinen began changing from dual license BSD/GPL-2 to
BSD-only in February 2012 and the transition is well documented in the
CONTRIBUTIONS file.
Very few files remain containing the dual license file header comments:
Files: hostapd/logwatch/*
Copyright: 2005, Henrik Brix Andersen <b...@gentoo.org>
License: BSD or GPL-2
Files: src/utils/radiotap.c
src/utils/radiotap_iter.h
Copyright: 2007, Andy Green <a...@warmcat.com>
2009, Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net>
License: BSD or GPL-2
There's also a couple other files: copy of nl80211.h from Linux kernel,
some artwork, a spurious Android Makefile.
Other than those exceptions, perhaps the following is sufficient as
Raphael suggests:
Files: *
Copyright: 2002-2014, Jouni Malinen <j...@w1.fi>
License: BSD
An oddity I've noticed while scrutinizing over the git history is that
one attribution statement in particular, "2007-2008, Intel Corporation",
has been deleted from many files. Should debian/copyright care?
Also there are a lot of attributions to "Atheros Communications" and
"Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.", looks like these companies merged and Jouni
Malinen works at Qualcomm, further supporting a simplification of
debian/copyright.
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