On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:01:56PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > * Complaining that you would have to check every single file implies that > > you > > don't already check every single file, which you should be doing. > > If all the above were true, no package of xulrunner, iceweasel, openoffice, > kde and others would have *EVER* entered the archive, since there has > *NEVER* been such work done on these packages, and until this funky new > copyright showed up, that did bother *NOONE*, including the ftpmasters. [...] > If you want those copyright files to be thourough, I invite you to download > one of the packages above's source, and start checking those tens of > thousands of files. See you in three months to see where you are at it, > and throw you some more new upstream releases. > > > This doesn't mean that I am doubting how much work the bigger packages are, > > or > > that it isn't hard finding collaborators. I have a lot of respect for the > > people > > who offer there time to get this job done. On the other hand, this > > rationally > > has nothing to do with the copyright proposal, presuming that everyone is > > already following policy. > > It has all to do with it, since you are suggesting that the copyright > proposal is sane even for big packages, changes nothing to the current > status quo, which, as I said above is far from being true, and that > $SOMEPEOPLE should do their homework or move to other packages.
Actually, the copyright proposal is just a text format, not a policy document. If you're telling me that the FTP masters would be happy with blanket license statements for a package, what is stopping you from using the existing format to say something along the lines of: Files: * Copyright: Copyright 2008, Damien Katz <dam...@apache.org> Copyright 2008, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> Copyright 2008, Christopher Lenz <cml...@apache.org> Copyright 2008, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> License: Apache-2.0 On Debian systems the full text of the Apache License (Version 2) can be found in the `/usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0' file. Note, this is an actual snipped from the couchdb package. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
