Hi, Given that accurately listing the copyright holder (together with the years) for all files in a package is encouraged/required, I'm wondering how to deal with the following problem:
In one of my packages, there are hundreds of files, most of which have more than copyright holder, but since they were edited at different times, there is a LOT of actual year/copyright holder combinations. This means that if I want to describe the copyright of each file accurately, using a format like: foo/bar.c: copyright 1999,2004 John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> copyright 2000-2004 Jane Other <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> foo/baz.cpp: copyright 1998,2001,2004 John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> then even if I use wildcards in the file specification, there might not be a lot of place where I could fold multiple stanzas to save on repetition. The only idea I have that would not introduce inaccuracies would be to group like this: John Smith: copyright 1998 foo/baz.cpp copyright 1999 foo/bar.c [...] copyright 2004 foo/bar.c, foo/baz.cpp But given that copyright on some files spans whole decades, this would hardly save any space. Another thing is - keeping this information up to date seems like a lot of work. Or should I just group authors (with unions of copyright year sets) and files into rough batches even though this would not be accurate in all cases? Such as claiming that an author has a copyright on a file even if he does not, or does not in (all) given years? How are other people dealing with this? -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
