On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I don't think you should be taking it upon yourself to add copyright
> statements regarding debian/ contents where authors have not asserted their
> copyright up front. There is precious little in debian/, outside of
> debian/patches/, which should generally be considered copyrightable in a
> well-done package.
I see. Then how about updating debian/copyright simply like so:
"""
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index f72a2e5..9e71f1f 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ Copyright: 2003-2004 Daniel Sleator
2007 Mike Ross
2008 Filip Maric
2008-2010 Borislav Iordanov
[-2008-2016-]{+2008-2018+} Linas Vepstas
[-2014-2016-]{+2014-2018+} Amir Plivatsky
License: LGPL-2.1
Files: bindings/java/org/linkgrammar/JSONReader.java
"""
This seems to match the activity in the upstream repository:
https://github.com/opencog/link-grammar/graphs/contributors
